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eDIL — 2 cais, eye homograph
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Royal Irish Academy · eDIL editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Royal Irish Academy
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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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.
*kad- → *kad-t/si- → *katsi- → cais
Headword 2 cais; cais .i. súilEstablishes the separate eye homograph.
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Does the cais meaning eye belong to the love–hate lineage?
No. eDIL assigns eye to a separate numbered headword, 2 cais, with its own eye gloss and citation.
Numbered headword 2 cais; cais .i. súil; eye citationEstablishes the separately numbered eye homograph.
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2 cais
Irishan excluded homograph glossed eye rather than love or hate
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