Dec 9, 2008

The Old Irish Verbal System...

Is insane.

Like [Latin, Greek and Sanskrit], Old Irish is Indo-European, has a heroic literature, and grammatical features such as inflected nouns and adjectives, plus a complex conjugated verbal system. But describing the Old Irish verbal system as ‘complex’ is like referring to the Arctic as ‘somewhat chilly’. What follows is something of an exasperated gazeteer by a frustrated Celticist.
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