XPost: de.soc.politik.misc, soc.culture.irish   
   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "hacedeca" :   
   >"Féachadóir"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag   
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   >> Finn in Old Irish means blonde, fair, clear. It does not mean noble.   
   >   
   >How old is Old Irish?   
      
   Oldest written records date to the sixth century. Some earlier   
   fragments in archaic Irish also survive, mostly in ogham carvings.   
      
   >Was it not spoken in the early middle ages? The Irish   
   >were christians already back then (not to speak about the legends that their   
   >kings were descendants of Mary Magdalene's and Jesus' child). Nietzsche   
   >would have something funny to say about that.   
      
   He can say what he likes about it, but he's talking through his arse   
   if he thinks finn ever meant noble.   
      
   >The problem here is: Nietzsche is talking about Gaelic and means for sure a   
   >language that was spoken before Christ or at least before the Celts became   
   >christians.   
      
   He's still talking through his arse. Finn didn't mean noble.   
      
   >> Nietzsche was talking through his arse, at least as far as Irish goes.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I do not want to irritate you, but he was already at the age of 24 a   
   >Professor of Classical Philology - an expert on old languages. And we are   
   >not talking about Irish here but Gaelic.   
      
   Irish = Gaelic.   
   I checked the DIL before posting, it gives the primary meanings of   
   blonde / fair / white for finn, and a secondary meaning of true / fair   
   / just ['scel find']. Nothing about a meaning of noble.   
      
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