pn arch. Boënd. ā, f. the river Boyne
(see O'Rahilly,
EIHM 3
; Bergin,
Ir. Hist. Stud. x 422
;
Pokorny,
ZCP xxiv 111
;
Études Celt. iv 180
; compared to Vedic govindu- 'who obtains cows'
JIES xiii 478
, but cf. Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe 103
):
in flumine quod Scotice Boend uocitatur
,
Thes. ii
277.37
.
in hostio Boindeo
,
269.43
(Ardm.).
super Vadum
Carnói i mBoind,
264.15
(Ardm.).
Inber Colptha ubi Boand
in mare exit
,
316.39
.
oc Áth Brea for Boïnn (: Find),
RC xxiii 310 § 29.
for Bōïnn (: mbinn),
ZCP viii 106.1
.
Bōänd i mMide na māl,
7
.
anmann Bōinne Bregmaige,
105.z.
tarca Bóind bró bága / Cathir Chróḟind, cró búada,
Metr. Dinds. i 28.19
. suithe iumais . . . na Boinne knowledge (that
came from) the herbage . . . of the Boyne,
Laws iii 50.9 Comm.
See Hog. Onom.
As n.pr. f.:
Boind ingen Delbaeth meic Eladan,
LL 1182.
Boand, ben Nechtain,
Ériu vii 220 § 12.
ra Boaind,
221 § 15
.
Boind a ssídib,
Fraech 102
.
gol . . . bantrochta Bóinni,
240
.