OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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airilleach, a sleepy person; from †aireal, bed, M. Ir. aired (O'C.):
airleag, leng, Ir. airligim, O. Ir. airliciud, lending; from leig, let, which is allied to Eng. loan, Got. leihvan, Ger. leihen. See leig.
airleas, pledge, earnest, arles; from Sc. arles, older erles, which, through O. French, comes from Lat. *arrhula, dim. of arrha, pledge. Eng. earnest, whence W. ernes, is probably from the same origin. See eàrlas.
airleig, a strait:
airmis, hit; see eirmis.
àirne, a sloe, so Ir., M. Ir. arni, sloes, W. eirin, plums, Br. irinenn, sloe, Celtic arjanio- (Stokes); Skr. araṇi, tinder-stick "premna spinosa", araṇka, forest.
àirneach, murrain in cattle:
airneis, àirneis (M'L. & D.), furniture; Ir. áirneis, cattle, goods, etc., M. Ir. airnis, tools, furniture. The word can hardly be separated from the Romance arnese, accotrements, armour, whence Eng. harness, armour for man or horse. The word is originally of Brittonic origin (Br. harnez, armour), from *eisarno-, iron; see iarunn.
airtein, a pebble, so Ir., E. Ir. arteini (pl.), O. Ir. art; possibly Gaul. arto- (Arto-briga), Artemia, name of a rock.
airtneal, airsneal, weariness:
àis, milk (Carm.), M. Ir. as (O'Dav.).
àis, wisdom (Carm.), ais (O'Cl.) See cnoc (Carm.).
ais, back, backwards; so Ir., E. Ir. aiss, daraaiss, backwards; Gaelic air ais. The forms ais, rithisd (rìs), thairis, seem compounds from the root sta, sto, stand; cf. fois, bhos, ros; ais may be for ati-sta-, or ati-sti-. Ascoli refers ais to an unaccented form of éis, track, which is used after tar and di (di a éis, post eum; see déis) for "after, post", but not for "back", as is air ais, with verbs of rest or motion.
aisead, delivery (obstetrical), E. Ir. asait, vb. ad-saiter, is delivered; *ad-sizd-; Lat. sīdo, assīdere, a reduplication of the root sed, of suidhe, q.v. From ad-sem-t, root sem as in taom (Stokes).
aiseag, a ferry, Ir. aiseog (Fol.):
aiseal, axle; it seems borrowed from Eng. axle, Norse öxull, but the W. echel, Br. ahel, *aksila, makes its native origin possible, despite the absence of the word in Irish.
aiseal, jollity (Sh., Arms.); see aisteach.
aisean, rib, Ir., E. Ir. asna, W. eisen, asen, Cor. asen; cf. Lat. assula, splinter, asser, beam (Stokes). Formerly it was referred to the same origin as Lat. os, ossis, bone, Gr. ὀστέον,
