Abstract This paper intends to study the history of the Old Irish word aue ‘descendant, grandchild’ in both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The former approach tries to demonstrate what forms this word evolved into from the early Old Irish period up to the end of the Middle Irish period, and to establish the phonological changes it underwent in accordance with our present understanding of the history of the Irish language. The latter approach is based on a linguistically annotated corpus of the Annals of Ulster, and shows the distribution of variant forms of aue in relation to the period they are attested in. The discrepancy between the two observations is discussed and various hypotheses are raised to explain it.

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古老的爱尔兰 aue “后代”及其后代

摘要 本文旨在从定性和定量的方法研究古爱尔兰语 aue 'descendant, grandchild' 的历史。前一种方法试图证明这个词从早期的古爱尔兰时期到中期爱尔兰时期结束时演变成什么样的形式，并根据我们目前对爱尔兰语言历史的理解来确定它所经历的语音变化。后一种方法基于阿尔斯特年鉴的语言注释语料库，并显示了 aue 变体形式与它们被证明所处的时期相关的分布。讨论了两种观察结果之间的差异，并提出了各种假设来解释它。