n
f. (possibly identical with 1 emon)
a species of verse, apparently a stanza with couplets
similar in structure: emon airchitel ar it cosmaili a da
lethcomarc unde anamain [= anemuin, Corm.]
dicitur .i. ni
emon acht is ceatharreig,
O'Mulc. 391
=
Corm. Y 574
. ech cach emhain ina chain-chennas coir, 'for every emain (the due payment is) a steed in its fair proper bridle'
O'Dav. § 531
,
ZCP xx 483
.
ind anamain mór...cethri re inti-sside .i. nath ┐ anair,
laíd ┐ emain,
IT iii 59 § 114
. Cf.
60 § 118
.
96 § 152
.
Auraic. 1578
.
3673
.
is i so in eamhain,
IT iii 97 § 156
.
n
p.
emna,
59 § 112
. in cethramad [rand] emun imrind
`e. i.' is the fourth (species of) stanza
64.11
. is í seo ind
emain imrind (of a stanza 72+73in which the separate
couplets have deibide rime i.e. rinn and airdrinn, while
a-c, b-d also rime)
68 § 8
. impud na hemna (i.e. reversing
the order of the lines in the above stanza to 73+72)
68 § 9
.
eamain imceand imrind (a rearrangement of deibide imrind
mór)
69 § 11
. See also
ZCP xvii 270.12
.
The emain belonged to the syllabus of the cano or
fourth-year student (
IT iii 36
), and the reward for it was
two cows, or a steed of equal worth:
da ba ar emain,
Laws
v 58.9 Comm.
,
62.23 Comm
.