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Hamp, Eric P., “Varia I”, Ériu 24 (1973): 160–182.

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Article
“Varia I”
Periodical
Ériu 24 (1973)
Greene, David, and Proinsias Mac Cana (eds), Ériu 24 (1973), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Volume
24
Pages
160–182
Subjects and topics
History, society and culture
Agents
BanbaBanba
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Banba is a designation for Ireland as a whole, though  “[o]rig. name of north Leinster = mag mBreg, hence from British compound *Banno-Magos [...] or from *ban-w-yā as a theonym” (eDIL s.v. Banba), as well as an eponymous character or personification who is said to have given her name to the island; sometimes mentioned along with two sisters, Ériu and Fódla, who did likewise.
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[1] “Underlying and reapplied Lautgesetze in Germanic and Keltic”
160–163
[2] “Notes on some Indo-European preverbs”
163–167
[3] airlicud
167–169
[4] Banba again”
Lexical items: Ir. Banba
BanbaBanba
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Banba is a designation for Ireland as a whole, though  “[o]rig. name of north Leinster = mag mBreg, hence from British compound *Banno-Magos [...] or from *ban-w-yā as a theonym” (eDIL s.v. Banba), as well as an eponymous character or personification who is said to have given her name to the island; sometimes mentioned along with two sisters, Ériu and Fódla, who did likewise.
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169–171
[5] “On voicing in Old Irish final spirants”
171–172
[6] “An ancient Indo-European idiom”
172–174
[7] sechtarét Sg. 67b21”
174–175
[8] “Some compounds of téit
175–177
[9] teüir
177–178
[10] at-bail(l), (gaé) bulga
179–182
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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