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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
eigh, ice; see deigh. Hence eighre, oighre, Ir. oidhir, E. Ir. aigred, W. eiry, snow.
eigh, a file, Ir. oighe: *agiâ; root ag of Eng. axe, Got aqizi.
éigh, a cry, Ir. éigheamh, O. Ir. égem, Celtic root eig; Lettic ígt. Cf. also Lat. aeger (Stokes, Zim).
eighreag, a cloudberry; see oighreag.
éiginn, necessity, Ir. éigin, O. Ir. écen, W. angen, *enknâ (Stokes); Gr. ἀνάγκη (= ἀν-άγκη). Allied by root (ank : enk) to thig, etc.
eildeir, an elder; from the Scotch, Eng. elder.
eile, other, another, Ir. eile, O. Ir. aile, W. aill, all, Br. eil, all, Gaul. allo-, *aljo-, *allo-; Lat. alius; Gr. ἄλλος; Eng. else.
eileach, mill-race, mill-dam, embankment; from ail, stone, "stone-work".
eilean, an Island, Ir. oilean, E. Ir. ailén; from Norse eyland, Eng. island.
eilean, training; see oilean.
eileir, the notch on the staves of a cask where the bottom is fixed. (In Arg. èarrach):
eileir, a deer's walk, eileirig, where deer were driven to battue them. Hence the common place-name Elrick. Bk.of Deer in d-elerc?
eileir, sequestered region, etc.; see eilthir.
eilgheadh, levelling of a field for sowing, first ploughing; cf. Ir. eillgheadh, burial, to which Stokes cfs. Umbrian pelsatu, Gr. θάπτειν, pelsans, sepeliundus. H.Maclean compared the Basque elge, field.
eilid, a hind, so Ir., O. Ir. elit, W. elain, cerva, *elinti-s, *elanî, Gr. ἐλλός, fawn, ἔλαφος (= ἔλνφος), stag; Lit élnis, stag; Arm. eλn; etc.
eilig, willow-herb, epilobium; from Lat. helix.
eilitriom, a bier (H.S.D. for Heb.), Ir. eletrom, eleathrain, M. Ir. eilitrum; from Lat. feretrum (Stokes).
eilthir, a foreign land, eilthireach, a pilgrim, Ir. oilithreach, O. Ir. ailithre, pilgrimage; from eile and tìr, q.v.
eiltich, rejoice:
eineach, bounty, Ir. oineach. Cf. O. Ir. ainech, protectio, root nak, attain, as in tiodhlac. Hence the H.S.D. eineachlann, protection (from Ir.).
eirbhe, dyke or wall between crop-land and hill-land (M'F.):
eirbheirt, moving, stirring; E. Ir. airbert, use, airbiur, dego, fruor: air and beir, q.v.
eirbhir, asking indirectly: "side-say"; air+beir; cf. abair.
