Saturday, March 7, 2015

A small Ogam / Ogham Dictionary

ogham stone in the ground of Ratass Church in Tralee, Co. Kerry



( A work in slow Progress)


The ogham alphabet originally consisted of twenty distinct characters (feda), arranged in four series aicmí (plural of aicme "family"; compare aett). Each aicme was named after its first character (Aicme Beithe, Aicme hÚatha, Aicme Muine, Aicme Ailme, "the B Group", "the H Group", "the M Group", "the A Group"). Five additional letters were later introduced (mainly in the manuscript tradition), the so-called forfeda.
Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham


A::
aicme > From Old Irish aicme.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈacmʲə]
Noun aicme f (genitive aicme, plural aicmí)
genus
class (social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc.)
family, tribe
set, clique
denomination (unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aicme



F::
Feda >

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