Emain
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Emain
or dil.ie/20014
Forms:
Emain, hEmain, hEmuin, nEmain, Emain, Emna, Emna, Emnó
i, n.l., f.
I
Navan Fort, near Armagh: nom.
ceth leth ata
Emain
,
TBC-I¹ 376
.
Emuin Machæ,
LL 126a16
.
acc.
fri hEmain anair,
TBC-I¹ 429
.
tanic co hEmain,
IT
i 216.8
. dat.
a hEmuin
,
IT i 144.19
. i nEmain Macha
136.2
.
o
Emain
Macha,
TBC-I¹ 1829
. gen. os Emna oenuch
AU 902
.
borg Emna
,
Fél. Prol. 193
.
i coiced Emnó
(: bó),
CRR 4
.
for dóe na rrátha .i. na Emna,
IT i 72.4
.
for dou na hEmna,
76.2
(v.l. for tua na hEmnai, for tua
ina hEmna).
II the name of an elfin fort, or region:
cróib dind abaill a
hEmain (.i. Emne(a) nomen regionis),
Imr. Brain 3
.
Eamhain
mheic Lir mheic Mhidhir,
23 H 8, 59a
. Freq. E. Ablach:
Eamhain Abhlach,
23 H 8, 59a
.
is e in M. sin robai a
nAraind, ┐ as fria side adberar Eamain Ablach,
RC xxiv
274 § 7
. dún in Eamhno Abhlaighe (sic leg.) like Emain of
the apple-trees
Ériu v 56.72
. Síth Emna, Skene's
Celtic Scotland iii 410
=
23 H 8, 59a
.
ZCP viii 194
.
TD ii 215
.
Cf. Emne.