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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Guess what? The call for papers for the XVIII Celtic Congress in Salamanca is open! internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com/index.php/re...

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I‘m very much looking forward to being there!

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If anyone likes Old Irish and is in Oxford on Friday, May 8, I’m talking about language variation.

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Old Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind? (O'Donnell Lecture 2026)

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yes. It seems that Dental-Labial-Dental is an acceptable sequence in Old Irish, as seen in one of my favourite forms do·aidbdetar 'they are shown' (Ml. 30b2, from *to·að-u̯ēð-odor, pres. pass. 3pl. to do·adbat 'he shows' ).

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hmm. Good point that my suggested derivation may not show the correct development. There is also *nm < *nw (cf. enw 'name' < *anman (plus analogy) or mynwent 'graveyard' < L monumenta). Looks like I have some more thinking to do.

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

is ainmnet 'patience' (MW anmynedd) < *an-men-. I have about six or eight months before the paper is due, so I'll have to see if I figure out what to do with this in the meantime.

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

There are plenty of counter-examples to my proposed rule, but as far as I can see, all but one can be explained by analogy. The question (as always with new rules) is whether the proposed rule does enough work to offset the downside (i.e. the analogy needed). The one form I cannot explain... 1/

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hmm. I just realised that this was my very first actual post on this platform. I guess I was waiting for the right moment.

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

and a few others. If this works, *are- before a nasal would NOT lead to a palatalised cluster, and once there are allomorphs, analogy could enter into the picture. I did not look at *are, I must admit (the paper is already too long), but we can add it to the to-do list for the field. /3

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

of them is the syncope of *e (not *i) between a resonant and a nasal. Good examples are gen. sg. dénmo 'of a deed' < *degnīmōs, almost all prototonic present and future stem forms of con·icc 'can' (so ·cumcu 'I can', ·cumgat 'they can', etc.), acc pl fernu 'belts' < *ferenu (nom. sg. ferenn)... /2

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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I just finished a paper that *might*, if correct, be able to explain a number of non-palatalised forms from *are (with considerable analogy). Basically I looked for unexpected non-palatalisation resulting from syncope of front vowels and I found a few conditions conducive to non-pal. One... /1

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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm going to do a wild-card call for help here, and hope that Bluesky by now is just as magic as Twitter used to be back in the day! For a podcast I'm creating on #spelling (yes, you read that right) I'm looking for people who'd be willing to talk to me about spelling in post-colonial situations 1/3

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a boy is holding up a sign that says i skipt skool

ALT: a boy is holding up a sign that says i skipt skool

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Miss Celtic while you're enjoying the lovely summer? Then listen to our assistant-professor Nike on Dutch National Radio's history show OVT @omroepvpro and sing along to Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile! 🎤 🎼 1/2 www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...

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Historische protestsongs: Oró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile

Het historische protestlied 'Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile' met keltoloog Nike Stam.

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