Middle Irish

American  

noun

1. the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.

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Middle Irish British  

noun

1. Irish Gaelic from about 1100 to about 1500

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Middle Irish

The Middle Irish place name for the neighbouring Dowth passage tomb, Fertae Chuile, is based on this lore and can be translated as "Hill of Sin".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2020

The language in which the huge miscellaneous codices enumerated above are contained is called by the general name of Middle Irish, which is a very wide term.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Thus in many parts of LU. we find a thin Middle Irish veneer on what is largely Old Irish of the 8th or 9th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Dr Douglas Hyde gives it as his opinion that the exceedingly numerous metres known in Middle Irish had become restricted to a couple of dozen, and these nearly all heptasyllabic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

The Táin Bó Cúalnge, like most of the Irish saga-tales as they have come down to us in their Middle Irish dress, is chiefly in prose, but interspersed with verse.

From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn