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eDIL — About the dictionary, revision, headwords, and citations

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Royal Irish Academy · eDIL editors
YEAR
2026
PUBLISHER
Royal Irish Academy
DOI
Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE
lexicographic method
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Middle Irish cais could mean love or hate—and a separate cais meant eye.

eDIL's first numbered cais headword is explicitly explained as both love and hate. Its glossary evidence equates the form with serc and grádh on the love side and miscais or mioscais on the hatred side; cited passages likewise cross the divide. Most strikingly, one Éigse line is tentatively translated "my love ... is met by hatred(?)", placing the same visible form on both sides while preserving the editor's question mark. Then eDIL's second numbered cais headword breaks the spell entirely: it means eye. The unveiling is not that love and hate were secretly identical. It is that written identity, lexicographic grouping, contextual meaning, and historical ancestry are four different claims.

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*kad- → *kad-t/si- → *katsi- → cais

Headword, citation, etymology, and revision policies

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Does eDIL make the deep etymology settled?

No. eDIL says it is generally not an etymological dictionary and supplies etymologies selectively. The deeper graph route therefore rests on separately cited comparative scholarship.

Etymology policy: eDIL is generally not an etymological dictionary

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NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS

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