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Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín, “The semantics of tonnad and deug thonnaid reappraised”, Studia Celtica 51 (2017): 105–113.

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Citation details
Article
“The semantics of tonnad and deug thonnaid reappraised”
Periodical
Volume
51
Pages
105–113
Description
Description

(i) tonnad ‘pouring, outpouring, what is made to flow’ -- (ii) tonnad ‘poisonous pouring, poison’ -- deug thonnaid ‘drink of poison’; figuratively ‘violent death’ -- (iii) tonnad ‘vomiting’ -- (iv) tonnad ‘death’ -- A possible misidentification of tonnad.

Subjects and topics
Headings
Early Irish
Approaches
lexicography
Language
Lexical itemSingle words, morphemes or phrases.
Irish tonnadIrish deug thonnaid
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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August 2018, last updated: March 2022