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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.

SOURCE-REPORTED ATTESTATION

THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.

eDIL translates the clause as his step-mother's hatred for him. The source establishes one negative reading without making hatred the only sense of the headword.

Middle Irishdate not normalized; source-reportedprobable

cais

ACC and O'Clery citation in eDIL

“ba mór a chais 'co a lesmáthair”
WITNESS TYPE
Source-reported corpus record
YEAR
Not fixed
LOCATOR
ACC 51; quoted O'Cl.; ba mór a chais
REPOSITORY
Not recorded
SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
Not recorded
FACSIMILE
Not linked
DIRECT INSPECTION
No
CONFIDENCE
probable
01

BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE

THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM

TITLE
eDIL — 1 cais, noun explained as both love and hate
AUTHOR
Royal Irish Academy · eDIL editors
YEAR
2026
PUBLISHER
Royal Irish Academy
SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
CITATION KEY
edil-cais-love-hate