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Thread #19657   Message #202319
Posted By: GUEST,Annraoi
27-Mar-00 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: What's a Planxty?
Subject: RE: What's a Planxty?
Bhal, a Néill,

"Plancadh" Ó Dónaill lch 955 = "a beating / trouncing"

Three questions:

1. Whence came the intrusive "s" and "t" ?

2. More fundamentally why the Gen. Sg. Form "plancaidh" ?

3. Would you not expect the form "plancadh theach X" ?

Annraoi

N.B Tell your parents I send my regards.