Is it not most often so, when we follow the Eagles?

[sovay]

I'm not dead; I'm just not sleeping, which has rather the same effect on my conversation.

But I got a postcard in the mail from the porta dextra of Eboracum, so things could be worse.

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but I have no idea how it got into other languages

I wonder if anyone does. Seems like a possible subject for a paper, if one knew how to research it.

I know the underlying language is uncertain; presumably Brythonic something, but there are no attestations outside of the Romanized place-name.

Would make sense, that. Any road, there isn't much Brythonic influence on Irish, from what I'm given to understand*--Latin continues to strike me as maybe the most likely source. I'm trying to think if there's anybody I could ask who'd know enough about loanwords in Old and Middle Irish.

*Although I do remember a lecturer at UCC saying that "Gael" probably came from a Brythonic word meaning "Woods-person, savage."