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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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Fick4 14. Skeat derives Sc. ingle from the Gaelic. Also ainneal, a common fire.

aingealachd, numbness: ang-eal-ach-, root ang, choke (Lat. ango)?

aingealtas, perversity, malignity; from the following.

aingidh, wicked, Ir. aingidhe, malicious, O. Ir. andgid, angid, nequam, wicked, andach, sin; *an-dg-id, root deg of deagh, good, q.v.

àinich, panting, also aonach; root ān-, long form of an, breath (see anail); Skr. ânana, mouth ("breather").

ainid, vexing.

ainis, anise; from the English. M. Ir. in ainis, gloss on "anisum cyminum dulce".

ainm, name, Ir. and O. Ir. ainm, pl. anmann, B. of Deer anim, W. enw, Br. hanv, *anmen-; Gr. ὄνομα; Pruss. emmens, Ch. Sl. imę; root ono, allied to in Lat. nomen, Eng. name.

ainmhide, a rash fool; see òinid.

ainmhidh, beast, brute, Ir. ainmhidhe, M. Ir. ainmide, *anem-itio-s, *anem-, life, soul; Lat. animal, etc. Ir. is also ainmhinte, "animans".

ainmig, rare; an-minig, q.v.

ainneamh, rare; see annamh.

ainneart, force; ain-, excess (see an-), and neart.

ainnighte, tame, from ainneadh, patience (Sh.); possibly from an-dam, root dam, tame.

ainnir, virgin, E. Ir. ander, W. anner, heifer, M. Br. annoer (do.), *anderâ; cf. Gr. ανθηρóς, blooming, ἀθάριοι, virgins (Hes.), *νθαρ-.

ainnis, ainniseach, needy: an+dìth, want?

ainstil, fury, over-fizzing: an+steall.

air, on, upon. This prep. represents three Irish ones:
(a) air=O. Ir. ar, air, ante, propter, W. ar, er, Br. er, Gaul are-, Celtic ari, arei, Gr. παρά, παραί, by, before; Lat. prae; Eng. fore, for. This prep. aspirates in Irish, and in Gaelic idioms it still does so, e.g. air chionn.
(b) air=O. Ir. for, "super", O. W. and O. Br. guor, Br. voar, oar, Gaul. ver-; Gr. ὑπέρ; Lat. s-uper; Eng. over. This prep. did not aspirate; it ended originally in r in Gaelic; as an inseperable prefix (vero-, viro- in Gaul.) it aspirated, as in the modern form of old names like Fergus, now Fearghuis or Fear'uis (gen. case).
(c) air=O. Ir. iar n-, after, pre-Celtic epron; Skr. aparám, afterwards, aparena, after; Got. afar, after, Eng. af-ter. Further come Gr. ὀπι-, behind, ἐπί-, to, Lat. ob-, op-. See iar.