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Straif (letter)
Straif (letter) Note: This article contains special characters. Straif is the Irish name of the fourteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, . Old Irish spelling variants are straif, straiph, zraif, sraif, sraiph, sraib. The ...
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Ogham
... the phonemes represented by úath ("H") and straif ("Z"), as well as the voiced labiovelar ... birch protects her". For this reason, the letter b is said to be named after ... gétal [g w ] (*g w ēddlan) Z straif [sw] or [ts]? R ruis [r] notches ... E edad [e] I idad [i] A letter for p is conspicuously absent, since the ... e.g. Patrick. Conversely, there is a letter for the labiovelar q (ᚊ ceirt), ...
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Talk:Ogham
... Celtic Tree Alphabet", and indeed the Ogham letter-names did not originally all refer to ... patent nonsense. It reposes entirely on the letter names (attested no earlier than AD 1390 ... 5th century, around the Irish sea. The letter values are designed for Primitive Irish phonology. That the letter names have "Indo European" names is due ... his own middle eastern hypotheses by his letter names, which, if taken at face ...
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Category:Ogham letters
... this section of this category. A Ailm (letter) B Beith (letter) C Ceirt (letter) Coll (letter) D Dair (letter) E Eadhadh (letter) F Fearn (letter) ...
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Bríatharogam
... From their comparison, some of the original letter names and their meanings may be reconstructed ... tosach n-échto "beginning of slaying" Z Straif tressam rúamnai "strongest reddening (dye)" mórad rún ... person" (?) EA Ébad snámchaín feda "fair-swimming letter" cosc lobair "[admonishing?] of an infirm person ... so that the original value of the letter was [w]. The kenning is Airenach Fiann ... original etymology of the name, and the letter's value, are however unclear. McManus ( ...
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Magic wand   (translated from French)
... the called Celtic alphabet Ogham, which a letter is associated a tree, the choice of ... weapon, symbol of the victory in chaos. Straif - Z - Sloe : power of the destiny and ...
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