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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
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
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.
*kad- → *kad-t/si- → *katsi- → cais
Headword, citation, etymology, and revision policiesBounds what the current eDIL surface can and cannot establish.
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Is Proto-Celtic *katsi- the secure direct parent of cais?
Koch publishes the comparison, but the reviewed materials do not expose a complete dated Goidelic derivation or independent consensus sufficient to mark the edge established.
Selective-etymology policyConfirms that eDIL does not independently settle the reconstruction.
What is the earliest surviving use of cais in either sense?
Not established here. eDIL supplies located citations but the underlying objects and dates were not normalized or directly inspected for an earliest-use audit.
Headword form and citation-order policiesExplains why web order is not automatically earliest attestation.
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 dictionaryDefines why comparative ancestry requires separate evidence.
Do the displayed citations measure how often speakers used love versus hate?
No. They are a selected historical-dictionary evidence surface, not a balanced corpus or a sample of medieval speech.
Citation selection, chronology, and revision methodDefines the dictionary as a curated evidence surface rather than a balanced frequency corpus.
Does one revised eDIL entry imply every line has been uniformly re-edited?
No. eDIL says revisions were targeted and that a revised component does not mean an entire entry received uniform revision.
Revision history and warning that revised elements do not imply complete entry revisionDirectly bounds the editorial status of current eDIL entries.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Medieval Irish textual and glossary tradition
Explains that headword form and citation order are editorial conventions, not uniform object dates.
Headword policy and chronological citation method · broadLater Irish lexicographic citation tradition
Bounds the record as a historical dictionary rather than one dated corpus.
Dictionary scope and citation policy · broadRoyal Irish Academy digital dictionary
Documents the digital research surface and targeted revision history.
History of eDIL: 2003–2007 digitization, 2007 publication, 2013 interim edition, 2014–2019 revision · globalNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
WORD-FAMILY REUSE