. The origin and history of Irish names of places. apter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chaetbr PAGE -The Growth of Words, 1 —Diminutives, , 18 —Borrowed Words, 45 —Poetical and Fancy Names, .... 62 —Diseases and Cures, 74 —Offices and Trade?, ....... 90 —Strangers, 122 —Irish Personal and Family Names, . 127 —Nicknames 159 —English Personal and Family Names, 167 —Articles of Manufacture 174 —Boundaries and Fences 210 -Various Artificial Worlis 217 -The Sun, 236 —The Atmosphere, 246 -The Sea, 255 -Colours, 266 —The Animal Kingdom, 289 —The Vegetable Kingdom, .; ... 318
. The origin and history of Irish names of places. apter Chapter Chapter Chapter Chaetbr PAGE -The Growth of Words, 1 —Diminutives, , 18 —Borrowed Words, 45 —Poetical and Fancy Names, .... 62 —Diseases and Cures, 74 —Offices and Trade?, ....... 90 —Strangers, 122 —Irish Personal and Family Names, . 127 —Nicknames 159 —English Personal and Family Names, 167 —Articles of Manufacture 174 —Boundaries and Fences 210 -Various Artificial Worlis 217 -The Sun, 236 —The Atmosphere, 246 -The Sea, 255 -Colours, 266 —The Animal Kingdom, 289 —The Vegetable Kingdom, .; ... 318 —The Mineral Kingdqm, ..... 36C viii Contents. PAOK Chapter XXI.—The Surface of the Land, 380 Chapter XXII.—Quagmires and Watery Places, . . 388 Chaptek XXIIL—Size ; shape, 413 Chaptei: XXIV.—Situation, 441 Chapter XXV.—The Cardinal Points, 447 Chapter XXVI. —Various Qualities and Circumstances, 458 Index or Najies, 4S9 Index, of Root Words, TiHl IRISH NAMES OF PLACES. CHAPTER I. THE GROWTH OF HERE are many teimina-tions or suffixes, in tlief^ Irish, as in other lan-guages, by which variousnew words are formed fromone root, growing out likethe branches of a tree fromthe same stem. It is notnecessary in this place to enteron an examination of all these terminations ; I in-tend to notice merely those that are found in ourlocal names, to explain their meanings as far as Ican, and to illustrate their use by examples. By acareful study of their laws, their combinations, andtheir various changes of form, we are often enabledto explain the formation of names which wouldotherwise be puzzling or unintelligible. An attentive examination of the terminations ofthe Irish language would have saved many ety-mologists, ancient as well as modern, from error :VOL. 11. 2 ^ 0 2 The Grouih of Words. [chap. i. for they have in numerous cases mistaken merepostfixes for separate roots; and have made com-pounds of words that are in reality simple, bysl
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