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| Ogham letters ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋᚁᚂᚃᚓᚇᚐᚅ᚜ | |||||
| Aicme Beithe ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚁᚂᚃᚄᚅ᚜ |
Aicme Muine ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚋᚌᚎᚏ᚜ | ||||
| ᚁ | Beith | ᚋ | Muin | ||
| ᚂ | Luis | ᚌ | Gort | ||
| ᚃ | Fearn | ᚍ | nGéadal | ||
| ᚄ | Sail | ᚎ | , , | Straif | |
| ᚅ | Nion | ᚏ | Ruis | ||
| Aicme hÚatha ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚆᚇᚈᚉᚊ᚜ |
Aicme Ailme ᚛ᚐᚔᚉᚋᚓᚐᚑᚒᚓᚔ᚜ | ||||
| ᚆ | Uath | ᚐ | Ailm | ||
| ᚇ | Dair | ᚑ | Onn | ||
| ᚈ | Tinne | ᚒ | Úr | ||
| ᚉ | Coll | ᚓ | Eadhadh | ||
| ᚊ | Ceirt | ᚔ | Iodhadh | ||
| Forfeda ᚛ᚃᚑᚏᚃᚓᚇᚐ᚜ | |||||
| ᚕ | , , , | Éabhadh | |||
| ᚖ | Ór | ||||
| ᚗ | Uilleann | ||||
| ᚘ | Ifín | ||||
| ᚙ | , | Eamhancholl | |||
| ᚚ | Peith | ||||
Gort is the Irish name of the twelfth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚌ, meaning "field", which is related to Welsh garth 'garden' and Latin hortus. Its Proto-Indo-European root was *gher-, *ghort- 'to enclose, enclosure'. Its phonetic value is .
Bríatharogam
In the medieval kennings, called Bríatharogaim or Word Ogham, the verses associated with gort are:
- milsiu féraib - "sweetest grass" in the Bríatharogam Morann mic Moín
- ined erc - "suitable place for cows" in the Bríatharogam Mac ind Óc
- sásad ile - "sating of multitudes" in the Bríatharogam Con Culainn.
References
- McManus, Damian. (1991). A guide to Ogam. Maynooth: An Sagart. ISBN 1-870684-17-6. OCLC 24181838.
- McManus, Damian (1988). "Irish Letter-Names and Their Kennings". Ériu. 39: 127–168. JSTOR 30024135.
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