I often get frustrated when I see assertions that passages or sections from the Irish genealogies are early but there isn't really an explanation. In the phrase "Ferta na rRig" from TCD H.2.7, O Corrain says that it's an early form.
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The rr is nasalisation in this case, caused by the genitive plural article (in)na. I don't understand Ó Corráin's statement - there is nothing particularly early (or late for that matter) in Ferta na rRíg. It's one of those forms virtually undatable.
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Thanks, I thought it was strange. It was in his revision of Hogan’s Onomasticon. The passage it’s contained in seems to be from the late eighth century, and a bunch of other early material (pre-syncope according to Ó Corráin). But that’s all I can find.
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