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Sanas

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PostSeptember 25 2004, 7:55 AM
O'durnain


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The Irish songwriter Luka Bloom has a song called Sanas. This I'm sure is easy for you guys: what is Sanas?
 
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PostSeptember 25 2004, 10:33 AM
Conor


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it means "hint, whipser, suggestions"

- Lá Fhéile Mhuire na Sanaise
The Feast of the ANnouncation
PostSeptember 25 2004, 17:00 PM
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In addition to that there's a famous glossary, Sanas Cormaic, compiled by Cormac mac Cuileanan (836-908), King-Bishop of Munster which explained the origin of over 1400 Irish words:

www.newadvent.org/cathen/04373a.htm

It was a bit inaccurate, apparently but it was one of the first books of its kind in any language.

Sanasaíocht is the Irish word for etymology.
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