Excerpt from An Irish-English Dictionary: Whereof the Irish Part Hath Been Compiled Not Only From Various Irish Vocabularies, Particularly That of Mr. Edward Lhuyd, but Also From a Great Variety of the Best Irish Manuscripts Now Extant Some Welch and English gentlemen laid their com mands on me to write something beyond what has hitherto been published concerning the original antiquity of the British nation, and in regard, that the old and ancient languages are the keys that open the way to the knowledge of antiquity, I found it the more necessary to make myself as much master as possible of all the old obsolete words of my own native lan guage; for it was generally owned and taken for granted, (whether true or false, ) that the British was the first and most ancient language in Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.