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Varia IV Some Terms for Tides in Celtic-Latin Literature

In researching the non-classical vocabulary of Celtic-Latin literature for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS) project, one becomes aware that our medieval authors, while in general strikingly willing to coin, adopt or adapt items for the lexicon of their chosen medium, seem particularly keen to develop a varied word-store in regard to certain areas of experience. Often it does not appear too difficult to see why this might be: dairying terms, for example, are noticeably prominent in the database, as one might expect in material from the Celtic realms, where cattle have been central to human life throughout recorded history. Another rich area has to do with the tides of the sea: again, perhaps, this is not surprising, considering that in the Mediterranean home of the Latin language the tidal range is minimal and so has negligible effect on navigation or on coastal life,1 whereas the shores of each of the Celtic-speaking countries, being open to the Atlantic Ocean, are exposed to twice-daily variations of sealevel that can be an order of magnitude greater than in classical Latin's cosily enclosed Mare nostrum.2 The following few examples were drawn together in response to a request, received in the DMLCS office, that had been prompted by the enquirer's perusal of the project's on-line Celtic-Latin word-list.3 The latter is a lemmatized, A-Z directory of those headwords for which full entries will appear in the Non-classical lexicon component of the Dictionary proper. The items presented here will consequently be published in that work.4