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Aughnanure Castle is a
tower house near
Oughterard on the N59, in
County Galway, in the west of Ireland. It was
built by the O'Flaherty
family in the late...
- evor, "alder, buckthorn"; Old
Irish ibar,
Irish iobhar,
iubhar, iúr,
Scottish Gaelic iubhar) + *-āko(n), a
suffix of
appurtenance meaning "belonging...
- Proto-Celtic eburos; Old
Irish ibar;
Irish iobhar,
iubhar and iúr; and the
Scottish Gaelic iubhar, Newry,
Northern Ireland is an
anglicization of An Iúraigh...
- 164) also
believes that the name idad is
probably an
artificial form of
iubhar "yew", as the
kennings support that meaning, and
concedes that ailm may...
- hogweed' + -og 'abundant in',
Breton evor 'alder buckthorn',
Scottish Gaelic iubhar 'yew', iùbhrach 'stand/grove of yew trees';
cognate with Évreux in France...
- Ge toil leam
Cailean Glinn Iubhair B' fheàrr leam gu 'm b'
iubhar 's nach b' fheàrna; Bho 'n a
threig e nàdur a m****nntreach, 'S gann a dh'
fhaodar cuim...
- Old
Irish ibar "yew-tree", Irish: iúr (older iobhar),
Scottish Gaelic:
iubhar, Welsh: efwr "alder buckthorn", Breton: evor "alder buckthorn"), combined...
- Traditionally,
Frasers wear
small branches of
Iubhar (Gaelic), or Yew, in
their caps....
- The Old
Irish words for yew are ibar;
Modern Irish, iúr;
Scots Gaelic,
iubhar; Manx, euar; Welsh, ywen; Cornish, ewen; Breton, ivinenn.
Sacred groves...
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bealach /pjal̪ˠəx/ bh
between vowels,
sometimes /./
siubhal /ʃu.əl̪ˠ/,
iubhar /ju.əɾ/ finally,
sometimes none dubh /t̪u/, ubh /u/
usually broad /v/ cabhag...
