All I am going to say here is that we have already said his name more than three times, so be careful lest we feed the trolls.

Again thanks all - I had not considered the troll feeding element of this question. Still curious though. Is their a good dictionary with full etymologies available. I haven't been able to find one that I can use but I am interested in the origins of words - it makes it easier for me to learn the language.

They say here that there isn't one yet -
https://www.uni-due.de/DI/Dictionaries

I can give you these two examples - the word for a book in Old Irish would seem to derive from Latin - lebor - which is now of course - leabhar, and then there's - báille, which in English means a bailiff, but I'm pretty sure comes from the Norman French - bailli.

There's a good etymological dictionary for Scottish Gaelic, which traces most things back to Old Irish, Norman French, Norse, or other roots, also referencing cognates in Irish and other Celtic languages, as well as Germanic and other Indo-European (IE) languages, sometimes discussing IE roots. It can be very useful for the etymology of modern Irish words as well, if you're aware of the fairly consistent spelling differences between the two languages. It's Alexander MacBain's Etymological Dictionary of Scottish-Gaelic. It was originally published in the 19th century, but an updated version was put out in 1998 by Hippocrene Books. I got my copy online (at Amazon, I think).

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McBain's dictionary is online too:
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/

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Ah well...he may show up, but if he does we can kick his arse.

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My first thought was àrainneachd (environment). The root element "àrainn" being some form of place/site/area -- the Sabhal Mòr uses it in the names of their two "campuses" (which are a three minute walk from each other, but on Skye, that qualifies as separate campuses).

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