Auricept Na N-Ecces or The Little Dog's Day

OGHAM DAY
luis lays ‘songs’ specifically, fictional narrative songs, (l

from historical ballads which were true.
The u is as in umbrella in BBC English combin
to make a diphthong.
THE ANCIENT WEEK
Ogham Day
The idea that the names of the oghams are the
is problematical. They appear to have been de
Auraicept na n-éces, which is a compilation of a
several different, now unknown sources. But t
inconsistencies. They are said to be the initials
of trees, but they are not the names of those tr
extant language. Even the modern versions of
drawn from these sources include trees whose
names don’t resemble their ogham names and
with the letters they correspond to, and they in
such as heather, reeds, and gorse that are not
all, as well as five that are obviously not part o
ogham for diphthongs, some of them not even
and pharos - a lighthouse). And other versions
names for different trees.
Dictionaries of ancient Celtic languages that lis

tautologically, with the ogham as their referenc
also said to be initial letters of the of the twent
languages, which I have never seen listed, and
inconceivable coincidence if the names of all tw
languages were the same as the twenty-five tre
the Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main lists word
that don’t even begin with the letter represente
they are associated with. Instead this list appe
the ogham as the mnemonic lists in modern su
systems are used, where items on a key list are
linked to an item to be remembered without re
logic other than its position in a sequence.
For example, you remember as a key list: apple

etc, and then link each items to be remembere
to each key. If the list of names of students in
must be remembered, and that list begins: Phi
Harold, Emily etc, you visualise Philip holding
Jean wielding a cricket bat, Harold stroking a
Emily walking a big black dog. The system wo
who persist with it. The ogham is adapted to it
than our alphabet is because it falls naturally
remember groups of five. In addition, students
whole ogham carved onto a wand to look at an
finger as they recalled their lists item by item,
fingering the rosary helps you to recall the seq
prayers.
Such a usage would account for the high estee

ogham was held, and gives new meaning to the
go on the wattles of knowledge’ to obtain inform
being sticks or rods (wands). It would also exp
of correspondences ascribed to the letters. (Th
expression referred to an ancient divinatory pr
a bull’s hide stretched over wooden wattles up
quester slept in order to procure a divinatory d
guess of Latin-educated scholars deriving from
in Vergil’s Aeneid of an ancient Proto-Roman p
But there’s an even more compelling reason fo

ideas about the original uses of the ogham and
of the most commonly accepted names of its le
luis, fearn, saile, nuinn, huath, dur, tinne, coll, q
gort, ngetal, straife, ruis, ailm, onn, ur, edadh, io
dealing with the five added diphthongs here.)
plausible etymologies for them all, some in Iris
English, (and for precedents there are example
written in hybrid forms of these two languages
isolated English words, even in verse of undisp
e.g., Corrghuíneacht Lugh (Lugh’s Crane Magic)
cultural upheavals in England during and afte
expansion and during the traumatic period of
establishment of the Roman Catholic Church w
persecutions and inquisitions, hybrid language
inevitably have formed among mixed populatio
and some of these would have lingered into the
centuries and beyond, especially in the hedge s
view, although the ogham is ancient, the tradit
the oghams are drawn from a Proto-English/Ir
their meanings are readily accessible via mode
English, though not wholly from either languag
(I realise that this is considered impossible, bu
I’m finding hints rare, but telling, of the antiqu
substantial proto-English vocabulary, pre-exis
processes of amalgamation and Germanicizatio
British Danish and Anglo-Saxon languages tha
currently propose.)
What’s more, once you make a few firm connec

follow inevitably with a compelling logic that gi
glimpses into daily life in an ancient ogham sc
in table form. I don’t start with beith but with
when you do, it becomes evident that what we’
nothing more nor less than a timetable for chil
an ogham school.
ogham cognate comments
ailm alim(ent) food
onn o(v)en the nn

represents
a glottal
stop
followed by
an n
ur hair pronounced
as George
Harrison of
the Beatles
used to say
it (ur as in
turtle) but
also
dropping
the h.
eadadh éadadh this is the
modern
Irish word
for ‘cloth’,
and the
plural,
éadaí,
means
‘clothing’
ioho dheocha(nna) Modern
Irish for
‘drinks’
dhe- is
pronounced
as y for
yellow in
Irish words.
beith bathe To have a
bath
saile sallie(s) Gestes and sallies were military techniques. A
Sally-doers must have been ancestral to both s
sailors.
nuinn no(th)in(g) nothing at all. The u is as in umbrella in BBC

dropped and the tt is replaced by an unspellab
as it is in extant English accents.
huath horse Lisps are common in Western European langu

anyway this account may have come from a sm
dur door The sort you open.
tinne tine Irish for fire
coll col(áiste)/(s)chool School

quert part Of course it was not quert. We already have a
p is conspicuously absent. The u is as in umbr
English, and the er is as in her i.e., the diphth
muinn mu(tt)on Not necessarily sheep meat, the word is cognat

which didn’t always mean what it does now, bu
have meant food. Probably glottal-stopped, as
in many English accents still.
gort gard(en) garden
ngetal kettle not for a cup of tea, but more like a cauldron,
or similar. The article is an, and has caused ec
the already eclipsised to gk- kettle.
straif straw straif is etymologically midway between straigh

and straw, being the straight stem of the corn.
straw bed.
ruis rise. as in ‘get up’.
once again The u is as in umbrella in BBC Eng
diphthong is uh-i
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The Ancient Week
The ancient week was probably lunar, with sabbaths at the full and dark moons
and the two half moons. This gives a variable number of days between
sabbaths, from five to eight. I believe that four of the five weekdays are not
named after gods as is commonly supposed, but are just numbered.
day derivation meaning

Monday amháin (pron, a wahn), Irish ‘one day’, or ‘day
word for ‘one’, cognate with one’
Ancient Greek ‘µονο’.
Tuesday twa, two (pron, too)Scots ‘two’s day’, or ‘day
English and English words for two’
‘two’, the Irish is da, dha or do.
Wednesday Woden definitely seems to have Woden’s day
laid claim to this one.
Thursday has evolved through a strongly Threesday
burred ‘Thrrrsday’
Friday has evolved through a strongly ‘Four’s day’ or ‘day
burred Frrrday, and then had a four’.
i supplied to fit the erroneous
theory that Frrr must be the
name of a god, and the best fit
was Frey
There’s still the question of why there’s an s in Tuesday and Thursday and not
in Monday and Friday. Perhaps it’s by association with Woden’s day, affecting
the two days adjacent but not the others. The theory that all seven days are
named after gods has always been unsatisfactory. They are a motley collection
of Norse, English, German, and Roman, with the sun and moon thrown in
haphazardly.
But if they’re simply numbered, what’s Woden doing clutching our week by the
Mittwoch?
My theory is this. Woden, like Celtic and other European gods, was not just a
cosmic being, but also an earthly presence, both political and magico-religious,
with armies, schools and industries, much like the Celtic ones. It may also, like
the Celtic ones, have colonised areas and supported itself from tribute extracted
by force or by peaceful negotiation (offering military protection in exchange for
it) to people who were otherwise vulnerable to attack. Thus, we see people
committed to a lunar week of five working days, one of which is pledged to
Woden’s earthly presence. They counted in something close enough to English,
but pronounced it with a strong Norse-like burr.
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OGHAM DAY

luis lays ‘songs’ specifically, fictional narrative songs, (l

THE ANCIENT WEEK

Dictionaries of ancient Celtic languages that lis

For example, you remember as a key list: apple

Such a usage would account for the high estee

But there’s an even more compelling reason fo

What’s more, once you make a few firm connec

onn o(v)en the nn

nuinn no(th)in(g) nothing at all. The u is as in umbrella in BBC

huath horse Lisps are common in Western European langu

dur door The sort you open.

tinne tine Irish for fire

coll col(áiste)/(s)chool School

muinn mu(tt)on Not necessarily sheep meat, the word is cognat

gort gard(en) garden

straif straw straif is etymologically midway between straigh

day derivation meaning

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