Ceirt
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Ceirt
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Ceirt (Queirt) ᚊ is a letter of the Ogham alphabet, transcribed as Q. It expresses the Primitive Irish labiovelar phoneme. The 14th century Auraicept na n-Éces glosses the name as aball, meaning "apple tree". Its phonetic value is. The Bríatharogam (kennings) for the letter are: Morainn mac Moín: Clithar baiscill ‘the shelter of a lunatic’
Maic ind Óc: Bríg anduini ‘substance of an insignificant person’
Con Culainn: Dígu fethail ‘dregs of clothing’ McManus (1991:37) compares it to Welsh perth ‘t
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