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| Ogham letters ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋᚁᚂᚃᚓᚇᚐᚅ᚜ | |||||
| Aicme Beithe ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚁᚂᚃᚄᚅ᚜ |
Aicme Muine ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚋᚌᚎᚏ᚜ | ||||
| ᚁ | Beith | ᚋ | Muin | ||
| ᚂ | Luis | ᚌ | Gort | ||
| ᚃ | Fearn | ᚍ | nGéadal | ||
| ᚄ | Sail | ᚎ | , , | Straif | |
| ᚅ | Nion | ᚏ | Ruis | ||
| Aicme hÚatha ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚆᚇᚈᚉᚊ᚜ |
Aicme Ailme ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚐᚑᚒᚓᚔ᚜ | ||||
| ᚆ | Uath | ᚐ | Ailm | ||
| ᚇ | Dair | ᚑ | Onn | ||
| ᚈ | Tinne | ᚒ | Úr | ||
| ᚉ | Coll | ᚓ | Eadhadh | ||
| ᚊ | Ceirt | ᚔ | Iodhadh | ||
| Forfeda ᚛ᚃᚑᚏᚃᚓᚇᚐ᚜ | |||||
| ᚕ | , , , | Éabhadh | |||
| ᚖ | Ór | ||||
| ᚗ | Uilleann | ||||
| ᚘ | Ifín | ||||
| ᚙ | , | Eamhancholl | |||
| ᚚ | Peith | ||||
nGéadal (Ngéadal or Ngeadal) is the Irish name of the thirteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚍ.
The Bríatharogam (kennings) for the letter are:
- lúth lego "sustenance of a leech"
- étiud midach "raiment of physicians"
- tosach n-échto "beginning of slaying"
Its meaning is probably " wounding". In Old Irish, the letter name was Gétal. It may be a verbal noun of gonid 'wounds, slays'. in which case is related to Welsh gwanu 'to pierce, to stab', which comes from the root was *gʷhen- 'to pierce, to strike'. Its original phonetic value in Primitive Irish was , the voiced labiovelar. In Old Irish, this phoneme merged with g (gort), and the medieval manuscript tradition assigns it Latin ng , hence the unetymological spelling of the letter name with initial n-.
References
- Damian McManus, Irish letter-names and their kennings, Ériu 39 (1988), 127-168.