enim Deos advocat. (Glofs. Suio-Gothicum auct. J. Ihre.) Here we fee that Diar, Hattar, and Aosar, were foreign words, not understood, introduced into the mythology of the Goths, which the most learned of their authors cannot explain of the Draoi of Odin, they made Gods the reader is referred to the words atar and aofar, from whence it appears clear to me, these words were conveyed by our Aire-Coti, to the Goths, by their traffic and commerce; that twelve of the Hibernian Draoi might affume the character of divines, and go as miffionaries to those parts, and endeavour to introduce the worship of Budh is not improbable, and at their death were worshipped as Gods.

HATTAR, is derived from the Irish athar, origin, father, and was applied by the Goths to the priests, as we do now to Monks and Friars; that it fignified the fame with the ancient Persians, is evident from the learned Orientalist, Sir Wm. Oufeley. In a late publication on the Gem of Khofru, he fays of the infcription, "from the want of proper Zend and Pehlavi vocabularies, I have it not in my power to explain the remaining letters of the infcription, although they appear fufficiently distinct and well formed;-among them, however, I can perceive Atra or Atour, a perfon belonging to the facerdotal orders.(Obf. on Medals and Gems bearing infcr. in the Pehlavi).-Athreoued, en Pehlvi, affornè houmenad. Les Docteurs Parfes traduifent le premier mot par eebodat konendegan, c'est-adire, ferviteurs d'Ormufd-(Anquetil du Perkon, Zendavesta, V. 1. p. 2. & p. 115. 280. &c.)

DRAOI-NEACHAS, the enchantment of the Draoi or wifemen; Ch. vn Nachas, enchantment; the Arabs have a species of necromancy by this name, anakas, figura

ال منكوس haec : : vel . in arena efformata, et

al-minacas, figura hæc in fortilege arte, quam al-ramil, vocant, (Gig. Cast.). DREACH, MEIRDREACH, a whore; Ar. dareak, actus venereus; Ar.jʊ dara, libidinofa fuit, appetens maris congreffum, capra, vacca, &c. hence Ir. dart, a cow wanting the bull, to bull a cow; dairih, rutting.

DRES, talk, news; Ch. w deras, difcurfus de re varius.

درس

DRES, rehearsal, inftruction, expo. fitio allegorica, inquifitio, & explicatio myftica, medaras, fermo, prædicatio, sensus myfticus, fchola; Ar. ders, reading a lecture, a leffon; Per. ders, inftruction-hence Edris, a name given to Enoch by Orientalifts, qui primus dicitur literas et cæli cognoviffe schemata, (Hottinger Smeg. Orient. P. 239.). Dyris, a name given to Atlas, the inventor of the Sphere in the Grecian mythology; Ar. Idris, Enoch, from ders,

meditation, study. (Rich.). The Eastern Christians fay, that Idris is the fame with Hermes, the Mercury, the Trifmegiftus, of the Egyptians.

DROM, DRUM, DRUIM, high, the ridge of a mountain, the Sun at its meridian or highest part, hence the South.Dromain, the back of an animal.-Dromdara, two backs, i. e. dromedary.-Dromchladh, the fummit of a beehive; Ch. darum, altus,

aufter,

aufter, meridies, fic dicta quafi habitatio alta, quod Sol in ifta plaga altius incedat. chalta, alveus apum.

DRUD, DRUG, an inclosure, a place of fafety; Sanfcrit, drug, a fort.

DRUIS, luft; druis-lann, a bawdy-house. See abu-druis, at ab.

DUAN, a fenate; duan-art, a fenator; duan-gaois or caois, policy, the art of government as regulated by the fenate; Ar. diwan, a fenate,

licy. See Geis.

keafut, geafut, po

دست

DUAS, a hand; mo geanamh imn' duas ro boi, my fsword was in my hand; Ar. Cu doft, the hand. DUAS, the original inhabitants, place of the birth of a family; Ar. dais, origines, radices.

DUBHARM, to fpeak; 7 dábar, he

دقع

د قاع

DUCAS, one's native property of land; Ar. ¿ duka, inhæfit terra, à ¿ʊ dukaa, DUIL, DAIL, a water bucket, a waterpot, the fign Aquarius; dail uifce, to draw up water; Ch. deli, urna, fitula, à 7 dala haurire; Ch. 7 deli, aquarius; Ar. dubla, fiturna, dulu, aquarius. Hence Ir. dile, a deluge, the flood; Dile-Ruad, the flood of Noah. See Ruad.

DUN, DION, DAIN, fignify writing or rather publications in writing, as daingean, a contract of marriage. See Gean. Dun-foilfighthe, a manifefto, (foilfighim to expose); dointe, legible; diun-combla, an aid-de-camp, (that writes orders), comhalam, to discharge a duty; Ar. dein, fignum, decretum,

دين

duwan, mandatum, dun, scripfit in tabulis publicis, dana, collegit in unum librum feu fyntagma poemata: fcripfit in albo, (nomina) vel in publicas tabulas retulit. See dan, a poem.-Danoide, a writing-master, a

EAD EABAN, clay, mud, from ban white, from ja laban, albescere, whence a libn, a brick, a tile, which I take to be compofed of the old Irish laib, clay, a brick, and ban, white, for in ja laban, is the prefixed fervile le, signifying to, to whiten or make white. See ban and letter L.

EAC, caftrated; bois'l'each, an ox, whence eac, a gelding, a horfe; Ch. py akar, spado, eunuchus; Ar. al khaeyh, castrated;

akhteh, a gelding, old Perf. euacae, a horfe, (Reland, Ammianus); Perf. ek, a horfe; madeac, a led horse, and yedek. (See mad. ed.) yauk, a Perfian idol in the form of a horse (Hyde); Yek fewar, a knight, a horfeman; Ar. Ju akhiyal, cavalry (See al); wil akhlij, a fwift horfe; (Ir. eacluach), hence Eactor, Hector. See tor; Ch. y aug, equus.

moon.

The Brahmins have a

EAG, the moon. Lunar feast, named Egashi. EAG, death, that is, the country of the The Brahmins teach, that thofe, who practise good works, will die when the fun is advancing to the South, and the moon in her fecond quarter-after their death they go to the country of the moon, where they will be happy according to their merit, (Sonnerat. Voy. p. 269.); and hence Voy. p. 269.); and hence may arise that great veneration the Irish peasantry have at this day for the moon-may you leave me fafe as you find me, is a common ejaculation at the fight of the new moon. In the Biscayan Equia is tranflated the Sun, by Lemeri-whence Tos Apollo, and his fifter Hecate was the moon. EAGAN, meditation.

EAGNAIDHE, a philofopher; bega,

fcended from the Sun, fon of the Sun; in Irish Earc-cine.

EARGALAN, (i. e. full of earga) a noify fellow, roaring, bellowing like an ox, a bagpiper; Ch. y ariga, glocitare, mugire.

EARLAM, a holy perfon, a faint; am, a man, person; Ar. ¿Jjl arlat, studium divini cultus, devotio, (Gol.). Erluk kan, a faint, (Kalmuc.) Ar. J lam, dignus fuit Evangelis

الم

ta, burar, nobilis, (Gol.).

EARMAIL, a widow, a widow's dowry, (Brehon Laws); Ar. armal, a wi

عرمل

with T, tiod, a cast; tiodal, a cast of stones, a monument of the dead, raised by the cafting of ftones, or for a victory; iod, a cast of a dart, became a measure of land, (See my tranflation of the Brehon Laws), hence the English, a hide of land; Ch. yr yada, to feel, yadah, to cast, yod, the hand; Ar. ed, a hand, hence

EDEL, prayers, i. e. hands lifted up (to the Sun). To give the hand to the Lord, 2d Chron. 30. 8.-kneeling down and holding up the hands in prayer, is the giving the hand to God. (Bates).

ivy, that is the five yod, the palm tree,

EDHAN, EIDHAN, fingered leaf, and hence whofe leaves are united in fives, the palmeto of the Spaniards.

EIGNI, forced; it alfo fignifies a forced word or expreffion; Ar. Wikna, expreffing any thing by a word, which has actually another meaning, allufion, metonymy.

EILE, mafter of a houfe, his domeftics, landed property, family, cattle, and all belonging to him, as Eile O'Carrol, Eile O'Hagurty, &c. Ar. Dehl, people belonging to any particular person, place, order, or profeffion, lord, mafter, fpoufe, confort, domeftics, family. Aoul, portion d'une horde, qui comprend les vaffaux relevants du même noble, (Tott's Tartar.).

EILE, EILE-ION, the Sun; Cnoc Eile, the Hill of the Sun, now called the Hill of adoration in the county of Tipperary.

EITEAC, refused, denied, forbidden; Sanf crit, Attok, hence the river Attok, which the Brahmins were forbidden to crofs.

EITEAC,

EITEAC, quartz, a hard white stone; Ch. phy atac, afper, durus.

ER, noble: Ch. bor.

ERRIGHE, a viceroy, do rat Foran errighe Egipte uile, Pharao made him ruler over all Egypt, (Leab. breac.).

ETAN, science, knowledge; Etan inghean Di an ceacht, bandea ceirde, cujus nomen eft Etan, i. e. Etan, daughter of the god of

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ceacht, (or akaket, grammatica. See p. 23.) goddess of trades, whofe name is therefore called Etan. (Cormac).-Punico-Maltese, hetan, fcientia, hence 'Ab, Minerva. See Oige-and Ceact. Di an ceacht was Eagnaifi, the Gonefa of the Brahmins; ¡n Etan, Phoenicium nomen ex fcriptura notiffimum, (Bochart from Stephanus).

FAD

F and P were the fame letters in the ancient

alphabet.

FAL

urine.

F is a prefixed particle of inference, an expletive, and in common ufe like the Ph of the Egyptians, the phi of the Chaldæans, and thefa of the Arabs, which Golius calls particula infeparabilis. The Irish grammarians name it spiureach-bhinighthèach, and comhfhocal foillfigheach, an expletive and explicative particle, as from cal a voice, focal a word. F is commutable with V confonant of other languages, is gnath F do freastal na V confaine, (Cormac). FA, about, concerning; Ar.

Fach, a hole; Ar.

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بيرفي

the fire.

FAIL-SEALA, the written decree; Ar.

yjil, a writing signed by a judge. FAITHIR, a foothfayer, diviner; hence Faithir-leog, a fwallow, a bird by which the pagan priefts divined, phether, the place of Balaam's nativity, it is fuppofed to have been the place of an Oracle. Patera in Lycia, where Apollo had a temple. Patera, the priests of Apollo; Ch. patar, interpretari, unde Jofeph poter dicitur, quia interpretatur fomnia, (Bochart).

FAL, an omen; Ar. J fal; Eth, et Egypt. phal. Les Kirguis ont un grand nom

FADARA, to distance, to lengthen; Ch. 775 phadar, difpergere; Ar. ; fed, extenfive.

(Pallas).

FAL, guarding or attending cattle; peiliec, palace, a fhepherd's hut; Inis Phail, the old

name