There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

The " cow " derivation depends most immediately on the Old Irish legal term for " outsider :" amboue, from proto-Celtic * ambouios, " not a cattle owner.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

The Irish word derives from Old Irish, which referred to a wooden structure or vessel, stemming from crann, which means " tree ", plus a diminutive ending — literally " young tree ".

Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.

Among those noted by the Irish annals, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are Ívarr — Ímar in Irish sources — who was active from East Anglia to Ireland, Halfdán — Albdann in Irish, Healfdene in Old English — and Amlaíb or Óláfr.

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

** Táin Bó Cúailnge ( Old Irish )

Another early appearance on record followed in 1987, where Enya provided spoken ( not sung ) vocals in Irish on the song " Never Get Old " on Sinéad O ' Connor's debut album, The Lion and the Cobra.

), Old Irish gair " neighbor ", Irish gar-( prefix ) " near ", garach " neighborly ".

The names used in the languages themselves ( Gaeilge / Gaolainn / Gaelic in Irish, Gaelg / Gailck in Manx, and Gàidhlig in Scottish Gaelic ) are derived from Old Irish Goídelc, which comes from Old Welsh Guoidel meaning " pirate, raider ".

Whitley Stokes and Rudolf Thurneysen, on the other hand, prefer to connect the second element * mor with a supposed Old English cognate mara " mare " ( which survives today in the English word night-mare ).

Morley means " wood by a moor ", from Old English mor " moor " + leah " wood, clearing ".

Alternative suggestions have been proposed, such as the speculation " maybe fancifully " that the name derives from two words for death: tod and mor ( as in mort ), meaning " death-death-wood ", or that the name meant " marshy home of the fox ", from the Old English.

The place name is Old English in origin, taken from personal name Dunn + mor and means Dunna's moor.

The name Lammermuir literally means " lambs ' moor " or " moorland of the lambs " from the Old English genitive plural lambra " of lambs " and the noun mor " moorland ", " swamp ", " waste ground ".

The name ' Whitmore ' is said by topynmists to come from the Old English ' hwit ' ( white ) and ' mor ' ( moor-which was used to describe a marshy area )-possibly a foggy area of marsh land, and ' Reans ' is said to possibly mean a type of furrow created during ploughing, designed to drain the land.

An Act of Parliament passed in the year 1563, entitled “ An Act for the Translating of the Bible and the Divine Service into the Welsh Tongue ,” ordered that the Old and New Testament, together with the Book of Common Prayer, were to be translated into Welsh.

Cumry is an evoluted form of the Old Welsh, with an assimilation of to first, the second element brogi changed into bro “ country ” in Modern Welsh.

Although the court at Celliwig is the most prominent in remaining early Welsh manuscripts, the various versions of the Welsh Triads agree in giving Arthur multiple courts, one in each of the areas inhabited by the Britons: Cornwall, Wales and the Old North.

* Phillimore, Egerton, ed., The Annales Cambriae and Old Welsh Genealogies from Harleian, MS. 3859, Y Cymmrodor 9 ( 1888 ) pp. 141 – 183.

Most Celticists consider Geoffrey's Caliburnus to be derivative of a lost Old Welsh text in which bwlch had not yet been lenited to fwlch.

English " Welsh " does not mean the same as German " Welsch -" ( implying, roughly, " Romance-language-speaking ") or Polish " Włoch " ( an Italian ) or Greek Βλάχ ( Romanian and / or Aromanian ), all stemming from an Old German root * welkh meaning " foreigner ".

The endonym Helvetii may be derived from the root elw that is seen in Welsh, meaning " gain " or " profit ," and the Old Irish prefix il -, meaning " many " or " multiple.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

A similar first name is Old Irish Artúr, which is believed to be derived directly from an early Old Welsh or Cumbric Artur.

The island of Lindisfarne appears under the Old Welsh name Medcaut in the ninth-century Historia Brittonum.

Their Old English name gave the modern Scots form Pechts and the Welsh word Fichti.

Its inhabitants spoke Cumbric, a Brythonic dialect closely related to Old Welsh.

The Old Irish sam (' summer ') is from Proto-Indo-European language ( PIE ) * semo -; cognates are Welsh haf, Breton hañv, English summer and Old Norse language sumar, all meaning ' summer ', and the Sanskrit sáma (" season ").

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

Compiled in Iceland in the 13th century, but based on much older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the Æsir and a harbinger of Ragnarök.

A great triumph of these laborious months was the decipherment of the palimpsest Codex Ephraemi Syri Rescriptus, of which the New Testament part was printed before he left Paris, and the Old Testament in 1845.

The archaic term Velja noć ( velmi: Old Slavic for " great "; noć: " night ") was used in Croatian while the term Velikden (" Great Day ") was used in Serbian.

The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species — lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or " bush babies " of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World monkeys, catarrhines or Old World monkeys, and the great apes, including humans.

After, the gods took a great rock called Thviti ( Old Norse " hitter, batterer "), and thrust it even further into the ground as an anchoring peg.

Fimbulvetr comes from Old Norse, meaning " awful, great winter ".

The novel is pessimistic ; industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of Old England, and there were great, new external threats.

" High details that in this realm Hel has " great Mansions " with extremely high walls and immense gates, a hall called Éljúðnir, a dish called " Hunger ," a knife called " Famine ," the servant Ganglati ( Old Norse " lazy walker "), the serving-maid Ganglöt ( also " lazy walker "), the entrance threshold " Stumbling-block ," the bed " Sick-bed ," and the curtains " Gleaming-bale.

* 1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.

His debt to Rask can be appreciated only by comparing his treatment of Old English in the two editions ; the difference is very great.

In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).

* 1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

At first the Eastern Roman Emperor Michael II showed himself tolerant towards the image-worshippers, and their great champion, Theodore the Studite, wrote to him to exhort him " to unite us Church of Constantinople to the head of the Churches of God, Rome, and through it with the three Patriarchs " and to refer any doubtful points to the decision of Old Rome in accordance with ancient custom.

Being of great historical and architectural significance, the Old City went through a lot of renovations and there is still some measure of restoring to be done.

The pregame show held before the game featured dancers in celebration of the culture of Native Americans in the United States, the traditions of the American Old West, and the great outdoors.

The Australians understood this twenty years later when Joe Darling, touring England for the first time in 1896, said: " We were all told not to trust the Old Man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer ".

* Spanish silver mines open in Latin America ; thus begins the great silver flow that links the New and Old Worlds.

According to Christopher Frayling's book Something to do with Death, Leone knew a great deal about the American Old West.

They based their new basilica on the original 4th-century ( since demolished ) Old Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, using the transept and crypt plan of that great pilgrimage church to frame their own saint as the " Apostle to the Germans ".

In Marburg, the brothers dedicated themselves with great enthusiasm to their studies, about which Wilhelm wrote in his autobiography, " the ardor with which we studied Old German helped us overcome the spiritual depression of those days.

The Rockingham Whigs claimed the mantle of " Old Whigs ", as the purported successors of the party of the Pelhams and the great Whig families.

The town defended itself against Turks and in 1515 during great Slovene peasant revolt against peasants, who had taken Old Castle.

Richelieu founded Odessa-watched over it with paternal care-labored with a fertile brain and a wise understanding for its best interests-spent his fortune freely to the same end-endowed it with a sound prosperity, and one which will yet make it one of the great cities of the Old World ".

" He listed some as: being " interested mainly in ' economic freedoms '"; following the " conservative lifestyle of right-libertarians "; seeking " others to embrace their own conservative lifestyle "; considering big business " as a great victim of the state "; favoring a " strong national defense "; having " an Old Right opposition to empire.