Essays about: "Middle Irish"

Found 1 essay containing the words Middle Irish.

  1. 1. Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Robert Farren; [2014]
    Keywords : Irish; Middle Irish; Old Norse; loanwords; semantic domains; lexical borrowing; Vikings; prototypicality; radial networks; semantic change.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study questions the received wisdom that surviving Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish are fewer than 50 in number and are mostly shipping-related. The eventual goal is a complete survey of all Old Norse loanwords still “in common use in modern Irish” (Greene 1976: 80), since nothing of the sort has been found in the literature. READ MORE