Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer by some of his friends and pupils on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Celtic philology in the University of Berlin . -agni, inOgam epitaphs; but besides -uyni there also occur -egni and-igniA) Looking at the stone itself I could hardly decide betweenfour notches or five, but I find that one of Mr. Jamess photographsenables me to decide for four, the vowel e. There are two more ) See Hübner, Lisa: Brit. Christiana, no. 232; Westwood, , p. 89, pi. 49, and Arch. Cambrensis 1893, p. 285. I THREE ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS. 237 vowel groups of
Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer by some of his friends and pupils on the occasion of his appointment to the chair of Celtic philology in the University of Berlin . -agni, inOgam epitaphs; but besides -uyni there also occur -egni and-igniA) Looking at the stone itself I could hardly decide betweenfour notches or five, but I find that one of Mr. Jamess photographsenables me to decide for four, the vowel e. There are two more ) See Hübner, Lisa: Brit. Christiana, no. 232; Westwood, , p. 89, pi. 49, and Arch. Cambrensis 1893, p. 285. I THREE ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS. 237 vowel groups of notches to be guessed, and supposing the wholeto end with a word in -egn- I have suggested an i to make agenitive -egni, at the end. The width of the gap before asegnseems also to demand at least five notches, which would indicatethat the first part of the inscription ended also with a genitivein i. Whether this would quite fill that gap I am by no meanssure; but I should hardly go beyond tAvo more scores whethershort or long. This would leave us to choose between Asegni,Osegni, Basegni, Masegni, JDasegni, Lasegni, Gasegni: it is uselessto guess any Trehowel Stone, lower part. Besides the doubts which enter at the vowel gaps the firstvowel and the first consonant make room for another to come inmaking ////, ef, into \>ijl,ing, or let us write w with thecharacter used by German glottologists for ng: in Ogam the «has the symbol of three slanting scores ///. It happens that thefirst score of the ////, is not very clearly produced towards theleft or the H side; but it is on the B side. One might perhapsregard that as no part of the writing: then there would benothing left but a notch as part of the initial vowel. Howeverthe notch, if such, will be found also in the case of the secondscore of the four, ////. In this case the first name would beItjessavi. As regards the first consonant Air. James wrote to me 238 JOHN RHYS. before I had seen the stone, as follows: The p
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