¹ Concise Compo Celtic Gramm. 391.

² Ed. K. Meyer, Revue Celtique 10.218, §§7, 8.

³ Ed. J. G. O'Keeffe, Anecdota from Irish Manuscripts 3.21.

⁴ One expects dod·cosa, if do·coisig is correctly derived from to-com-saig-, but the slender s may be due to the analogy of such palatal subjunctive forms as c·uintea ‘(he) may seek’ from cun-di-śa. At all events, dod·coise would represent an earlier dod·coisea, for in accordance with later practice a final unstressed a in such a position was lost.

⁵ Ed. W. Stokes, Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie 2.476, §1563.

⁶ The Irish word is fidchell, but whether it is exactly equivalent to the English ‘draughtboard’ remains uncertain.

⁷ Ed. K. Meyer, Fianaigecht 16, §40.

⁸ 1.560, 1.21.

⁹ Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen 2.610, 611.

¹⁰ With the s-subjunctive second singular dusc·oisis in the Reicne Fothaid Canainne compare, for instance, the s-future second singular inc·oisis ‘you will indicate’ in R. Thurneysen, Die Bürgschaft im irischen Recht 28, §76 b.

¹¹ The preverb oss-, uss- is likewise found in another compound of saig-, namely, *do ·osaig, 'stores up, hoards', and its abstract taiscid was used in the quotation from O'Davoren to gloss toc·oisigh (tocoiscid).