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Abstract
I tentatively propose a new Gaelic interpretation of an ogham inscription on a spindle-whorl from Buckquoy in Orkney. In this interpretation, the spindle-whorl would be a gift from a man to a female spinster.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Celtic Linguistics publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of the linguistics of the Celtic languages, modern, medieval and ancient, with particular emphasis on synchronic studies, while not excluding diachronic and comparative-historical work. Papers are invited in English on all fields/‘levels’ of analysis; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; formal or functional, cross-language typological or language-internal, dialectological or sociolinguistic, any theoretical paradigm.