géiss

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) swan
 * 2) * Glosses in Regina No. 215, 102b, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 2:
 * géissi glosses coantes (in a gloss of Baruch 6:21(22), where the manuscript is faulty; the Vulgate actually has and it isn’t clear what Latin word the Irish glossator thought this was, but he interpreted it as ‘swans’)