David Stifter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 784676 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Stifter |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Stifter |
| FIRMA | STIFTER D |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5634-9912 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The accents of Celtic. New light on the older and oldest stages
Ogam, cryptography and healing charms in the nineteenth century
Ogam is well known as a writing system invented for the Irish language and used extensively for inscriptions on stone monuments across Ireland and Britain between the late fourth and seventh centuries. Although the script has primarily been examined in the context of early medieval archaeology and epigraphy, its long afterlife as an integral part of Irish manuscript culture from the medieval to modern periods has also been acknowledged. The prese…
The dawn and twilight of Old Irish scholarship
(Zeuss 1853) marks the beginning of the modern, scientific study of the Old Irish language, short excerpts of the most important textual witnesses of Old Irish, the so-called Old Irish glosses, preserved in 8th-9th-century manuscripts on the European Continent, had appeared in print since the early 18th century. This article gives an overview of these early publications from the 18th and early 19th century by Johann Georg von Eckhart, Domenico Va…
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
Contributions to Celtiberian Etymology III
This article makes etymological proposals for five words in the Celtiberian inscription from Novallas (Z.02.01): the place name TERGAⱾ is connected with Western Indo-European *tergo- ‘market’; DOIBIM is explained as a dative dual *dou̯ibim ‘to the two’; the gerund DVNDOM ‘to give’ is analysed as *dh3(u)-un-do-; MEDOM is compared with Old Irish med ‘measure, balance’ and Welsh medd ‘authority’; and the fragmentary DERNV[ is compared with words for…
Strategies in tracing linguistic variation in a corpus of Old Irish texts (CorPH)
This article introduces Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH), a corpus currently consisting of 78 texts in Early Irish (c. 7th–10th cent.) created by the ERC-funded Chronologicon Hibernicum ( ChronHib ) project by bringing together pre-existing lexical and syntactic databases and adding further crucial texts from the period. In addition to being annotated for POS, morphological and syntactic information, another layer of annotation has been developed …
Comracc Líadaine ocus Chuirithir
Die kurze, tragische Liebesgeschichte im prosimetrischen Stil entstand etwa im 9. Jh. Mehrere Gedichte von zum Teil großer Ausdruckskraft sind in eine reduzierte Prosaerzählung eingebettet, die außer am Anfang den Handlungsablauf nur erahnen lässt. Vor allem ab der zweiten Hälfte wird die Handlung fast nur noch durch die Gedichte vorangetrieben.
Dallán Forgaill
Die Totenklage auf den Heiligen Colum Cille, lateinisch Columba (ca. 521–597), den Gründer des Klosters auf der schottischen Insel Iona sowie weiterer Klöster in Irland und Missionar unter den Pikten, wurde um 600 verfasst. Für eine frühe Entstehung des Gedichts, schon kurz nach seinem Tod, sprechen inhaltliche Gründe: Legendenhaftes Material über den Heiligen, das sich sehr bald ansammelte, ist darin nicht verarbeitet. Stattdessen betont Dallán …
The early Celtic epigraphic evidence and early literacy in Germanic languages
This paper outlines the individual histories of the attested ancient Celtic epigraphic traditions, Cisalpine Celtic, Celtiberian, Gaulish and Ogam-Irish. It discusses the types of literacy in each of them and presents them as examples of how and under which conditions literacy arose and grew, and finally disappeared, in non-classical languages of antiquity. Where possible, the Celtic languages are viewed against an early Germanic background, to h…
Old Irish etymology through the ages
The etymological study of Early Irish began in the Old Irish period (c. 700‒900 a.d.), under the influence of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, and, because of its flexible hermeneutic potential, it enjoyed great popularity in the middle and early modern periods. It is only with the rise of modern comparative linguistics, especially of Indo-European linguistics in the second half of the 19th century, that the art of Irish etymology attained schol…
Cisalpine Celtic
The corpus of Cisalpine Celtic inscriptions consists of c. 430 short texts (graffiti and engravings) in two different Ancient Celtic languages, Lepontic and Cisalpine Gaulish. The inscriptions, which are mostly written in a variant of the North Italic script, date approximately from the 7th to the 1st centuries BC and are confined to a small area around the North Italian lakes and the Po Valley. This article presents the current knowledge about t…
Insular Celtic
Old Irish Ogam (pronounced [ˈoɣəm]), in Modern Irish spelling Ogham [ˈoːm], is the name of a writing system, not of a language.2 The language that is prototypically written in Ogam script is the earliest known stage of the Irish language, called Primitive Irish. The origin of the name Ogam is disputed (cf. Thurneysen 1937). It displays a blatant simi-larity with Ogma, the name of an Early Irish mythological, semi-divine figure, whose name in turn…
Two Early Irish Inscriptions from Co. Cavan
This article presents two stones with short inscriptions in Early Irish that were discovered by Brian Callaghan of the Moybologue Historical Society at Moybologue Old Graveyard and at Enniskeen Graveyard, in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Both sites are on the Cavan-Meath border and are approximately 10.5 km distant from each other
John Carey, Magic, metallurgy and imagination in medieval Ireland. Three studies
Further to Avidic
It is argued in this article that words for ‘geese’ in the Insular Celtic languages, e.g. Old Irish géd, Welsh gŵydd ‘goose’, and Old Irish giugrann, Welsh gŵyran ‘wild goose’, etc., go back to reduplicated formations * giγδo- and *giγurano-. The structure and phonology of these words do not conform with those of words inherited from Indo-European. Instead, they may be loans from a lost prehistoric language of western Europe that has been suspect…
Metrical systems of Celtic traditions
On the basis of fragmentary evidence from the ancient Celtic languages (e.g., Gaulish), but especially from the rich poetic heritage of the medieval Insular Celtic languages (e.g., Old Irish, Middle Welsh), the poetic terminology reconstructable for Common Celtic is presented. The possible metrical remains from ancient Celtic are reviewed and an attempt is made to identify their principles of versification. The characteristics of the medieval Iri…
Keltische Schriftsysteme
Anhand der zur Schreibung der lepontischen und cisalpingallischen sprache gebrauchten lepontischen schrift veranschaulicht dieser artikel das konzept von schriftkontakt. Wie im fall von sprachkontakt, entwickeln sich schriftsysteme in beständigem austausch mit benachbarten schriftsystemen. Der einfluss kann sich auf die wähl der zur Verfügung stehenden grapheme erstrecken, auf ihre graphische gestalt, aber auch auf die orthographische praxis. Für…
New and corrected ms. readings in the Milan Glosses
Nouvelles lectures et corrections de lecture sur le manuscrit des Gloses de Milan Après avoir examiné l’édition fac-similé (Best, 1936), ainsi que le manuscrit original (Milan, Codex Ambrosianus 301 C inf.), les auteurs proposent un certain nombre de corrections au texte des Gloses de Milan tel qu’il a été édité dans le Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus I (p. 7-483). Ces corrections, accompagnées d’un commentaire, s’ajoutent à celles qui ont déjà été pu…
Le plomb gaulois de Rezé
The Gaulish text from Rezé. This new Gaulish text comes from the district of Saint Lupien, in Rezé, dep. Loire-Atlantique. On this Gallo-Roman site, which was anciently on the southern brink of the Loire, the archaeologists conducted by Martial Monteil have found a lead tablet with an inscription on both sides. After a presentation of the archaeological context, Pierre-Yves Lambert delivered a tentative reading and linguistic interpretation ; Dav…
The Proto-Germanic shift *a*o and early Germanic linguistic contacts
The Proto-Germanie shift * > * and early Germanic linguistic contacts* Post-PIE * and * from all possible PIE sources are both reflected in Germanic by a single sound which, because of the sounds that continue it in the individual Germanic languages, is usually reconstructed as * for the latest stage of Proto-Germanic.1 This merger is paralleled by the merger of the post-PIE short non-high back vowels *o and *a in PrGmc. *a. The merger of non-hig…
Old Prussian »Driver of a Cart«
The Gaelic-English Dictionary (review)
Reviewed by: The Gaelic-English dictionary/Am Faclair Gàidhlig-Beurla by Colin Mark David Stifter The Gaelic-English dictionary/Am Faclair Gàidhlig-Beurla. By Colin Mark. London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xlviii, 736. ISBN 0415297605. $260 (Hb). Since the publications of Edward Dwelly’s and Malcolm MacLennan’s still widely used dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic almost a century has gone by, and the need for a modern dictionary of the language—modern bot…
Yr Hen Iaith
Reviewed by: Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh ed. by Paul Russell David Stifter Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh. Ed. by Paul Russell. (Celtic studies publication 7.) Aberystwyth, Wales: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. Pp. viii, 222. ISBN 1891271105. $39.95. This volume contains ten contributions on Old and Middle Welsh diachronic linguistics, philology, and orthography, most of which were presented at a colloquium on ‘The History of W…
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The Gaelic-English Dictionary (review)
Reviewed by: The Gaelic-English dictionary/Am Faclair Gàidhlig-Beurla by Colin Mark David Stifter The Gaelic-English dictionary/Am Faclair Gàidhlig-Beurla. By Colin Mark. London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xlviii, 736. ISBN 0415297605. $260 (Hb). Since the publications of Edward Dwelly’s and Malcolm MacLennan’s still widely used dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic almost a century has gone by, and the need for a modern dictionary of the language—modern bot…
Yr Hen Iaith
Reviewed by: Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh ed. by Paul Russell David Stifter Yr Hen Iaith: Studies in Early Welsh. Ed. by Paul Russell. (Celtic studies publication 7.) Aberystwyth, Wales: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. Pp. viii, 222. ISBN 1891271105. $39.95. This volume contains ten contributions on Old and Middle Welsh diachronic linguistics, philology, and orthography, most of which were presented at a colloquium on ‘The History of W…
Old Prussian »Driver of a Cart«
The Proto-Germanic shift *a*o and early Germanic linguistic contacts
The Proto-Germanie shift * > * and early Germanic linguistic contacts* Post-PIE * and * from all possible PIE sources are both reflected in Germanic by a single sound which, because of the sounds that continue it in the individual Germanic languages, is usually reconstructed as * for the latest stage of Proto-Germanic.1 This merger is paralleled by the merger of the post-PIE short non-high back vowels *o and *a in PrGmc. *a. The merger of non-hig…
Le plomb gaulois de Rezé
The Gaulish text from Rezé. This new Gaulish text comes from the district of Saint Lupien, in Rezé, dep. Loire-Atlantique. On this Gallo-Roman site, which was anciently on the southern brink of the Loire, the archaeologists conducted by Martial Monteil have found a lead tablet with an inscription on both sides. After a presentation of the archaeological context, Pierre-Yves Lambert delivered a tentative reading and linguistic interpretation ; Dav…
New and corrected ms. readings in the Milan Glosses
Nouvelles lectures et corrections de lecture sur le manuscrit des Gloses de Milan Après avoir examiné l’édition fac-similé (Best, 1936), ainsi que le manuscrit original (Milan, Codex Ambrosianus 301 C inf.), les auteurs proposent un certain nombre de corrections au texte des Gloses de Milan tel qu’il a été édité dans le Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus I (p. 7-483). Ces corrections, accompagnées d’un commentaire, s’ajoutent à celles qui ont déjà été pu…
Keltische Schriftsysteme
Anhand der zur Schreibung der lepontischen und cisalpingallischen sprache gebrauchten lepontischen schrift veranschaulicht dieser artikel das konzept von schriftkontakt. Wie im fall von sprachkontakt, entwickeln sich schriftsysteme in beständigem austausch mit benachbarten schriftsystemen. Der einfluss kann sich auf die wähl der zur Verfügung stehenden grapheme erstrecken, auf ihre graphische gestalt, aber auch auf die orthographische praxis. Für…
Metrical systems of Celtic traditions
On the basis of fragmentary evidence from the ancient Celtic languages (e.g., Gaulish), but especially from the rich poetic heritage of the medieval Insular Celtic languages (e.g., Old Irish, Middle Welsh), the poetic terminology reconstructable for Common Celtic is presented. The possible metrical remains from ancient Celtic are reviewed and an attempt is made to identify their principles of versification. The characteristics of the medieval Iri…
Further to Avidic
It is argued in this article that words for ‘geese’ in the Insular Celtic languages, e.g. Old Irish géd, Welsh gŵydd ‘goose’, and Old Irish giugrann, Welsh gŵyran ‘wild goose’, etc., go back to reduplicated formations * giγδo- and *giγurano-. The structure and phonology of these words do not conform with those of words inherited from Indo-European. Instead, they may be loans from a lost prehistoric language of western Europe that has been suspect…
Comracc Líadaine ocus Chuirithir
Die kurze, tragische Liebesgeschichte im prosimetrischen Stil entstand etwa im 9. Jh. Mehrere Gedichte von zum Teil großer Ausdruckskraft sind in eine reduzierte Prosaerzählung eingebettet, die außer am Anfang den Handlungsablauf nur erahnen lässt. Vor allem ab der zweiten Hälfte wird die Handlung fast nur noch durch die Gedichte vorangetrieben.
Dallán Forgaill
Die Totenklage auf den Heiligen Colum Cille, lateinisch Columba (ca. 521–597), den Gründer des Klosters auf der schottischen Insel Iona sowie weiterer Klöster in Irland und Missionar unter den Pikten, wurde um 600 verfasst. Für eine frühe Entstehung des Gedichts, schon kurz nach seinem Tod, sprechen inhaltliche Gründe: Legendenhaftes Material über den Heiligen, das sich sehr bald ansammelte, ist darin nicht verarbeitet. Stattdessen betont Dallán …
The early Celtic epigraphic evidence and early literacy in Germanic languages
This paper outlines the individual histories of the attested ancient Celtic epigraphic traditions, Cisalpine Celtic, Celtiberian, Gaulish and Ogam-Irish. It discusses the types of literacy in each of them and presents them as examples of how and under which conditions literacy arose and grew, and finally disappeared, in non-classical languages of antiquity. Where possible, the Celtic languages are viewed against an early Germanic background, to h…
Old Irish etymology through the ages
The etymological study of Early Irish began in the Old Irish period (c. 700‒900 a.d.), under the influence of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, and, because of its flexible hermeneutic potential, it enjoyed great popularity in the middle and early modern periods. It is only with the rise of modern comparative linguistics, especially of Indo-European linguistics in the second half of the 19th century, that the art of Irish etymology attained schol…
Cisalpine Celtic
The corpus of Cisalpine Celtic inscriptions consists of c. 430 short texts (graffiti and engravings) in two different Ancient Celtic languages, Lepontic and Cisalpine Gaulish. The inscriptions, which are mostly written in a variant of the North Italic script, date approximately from the 7th to the 1st centuries BC and are confined to a small area around the North Italian lakes and the Po Valley. This article presents the current knowledge about t…
Insular Celtic
Old Irish Ogam (pronounced [ˈoɣəm]), in Modern Irish spelling Ogham [ˈoːm], is the name of a writing system, not of a language.2 The language that is prototypically written in Ogam script is the earliest known stage of the Irish language, called Primitive Irish. The origin of the name Ogam is disputed (cf. Thurneysen 1937). It displays a blatant simi-larity with Ogma, the name of an Early Irish mythological, semi-divine figure, whose name in turn…
Two Early Irish Inscriptions from Co. Cavan
This article presents two stones with short inscriptions in Early Irish that were discovered by Brian Callaghan of the Moybologue Historical Society at Moybologue Old Graveyard and at Enniskeen Graveyard, in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Both sites are on the Cavan-Meath border and are approximately 10.5 km distant from each other
John Carey, Magic, metallurgy and imagination in medieval Ireland. Three studies
Contributions to Celtiberian Etymology III
This article makes etymological proposals for five words in the Celtiberian inscription from Novallas (Z.02.01): the place name TERGAⱾ is connected with Western Indo-European *tergo- ‘market’; DOIBIM is explained as a dative dual *dou̯ibim ‘to the two’; the gerund DVNDOM ‘to give’ is analysed as *dh3(u)-un-do-; MEDOM is compared with Old Irish med ‘measure, balance’ and Welsh medd ‘authority’; and the fragmentary DERNV[ is compared with words for…
Strategies in tracing linguistic variation in a corpus of Old Irish texts (CorPH)
This article introduces Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH), a corpus currently consisting of 78 texts in Early Irish (c. 7th–10th cent.) created by the ERC-funded Chronologicon Hibernicum ( ChronHib ) project by bringing together pre-existing lexical and syntactic databases and adding further crucial texts from the period. In addition to being annotated for POS, morphological and syntactic information, another layer of annotation has been developed …
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
The dawn and twilight of Old Irish scholarship
(Zeuss 1853) marks the beginning of the modern, scientific study of the Old Irish language, short excerpts of the most important textual witnesses of Old Irish, the so-called Old Irish glosses, preserved in 8th-9th-century manuscripts on the European Continent, had appeared in print since the early 18th century. This article gives an overview of these early publications from the 18th and early 19th century by Johann Georg von Eckhart, Domenico Va…
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The accents of Celtic. New light on the older and oldest stages
Ogam, cryptography and healing charms in the nineteenth century
Ogam is well known as a writing system invented for the Irish language and used extensively for inscriptions on stone monuments across Ireland and Britain between the late fourth and seventh centuries. Although the script has primarily been examined in the context of early medieval archaeology and epigraphy, its long afterlife as an integral part of Irish manuscript culture from the medieval to modern periods has also been acknowledged. The prese…
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