Talk:Nuada
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I'm confused. The Bres article says he lost his hand. This one says he lost his arm. Which is it? --Atlastawake 01:50, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- It's hard to be sure. In Irish lámh means both "hand" and "arm", and medieval Irish texts are rarely consistent. I've read one source that says Nuada lost his arm at the shoulder, but I can't for the moment remember which one it is. --Nicknack009 11:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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It currently says Nuada/Nuadu becomes Nuadha/Nuadhu in later texts. But I think that's wrong as far as 'Nuadhu' goes, because unstressed a → u happens before they changed the spelling of lenited consonants; n'est-ce pas? So you'd get 'Nuadha' in Middle Irish spellings, never 'Nuadhu' (if I'm right about this). QuartierLatin1968 
00:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
