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This is a very special day.After 5⅔ years, 68 months, 2069 days, this is the officially last day of my @ERC_Research funded project "Chronologicon Hibernicum –A Probabilistic Chronological Framework for

The Dindṡenchus often gives fanciful etymologies for names of places. This is not to say that we can do better in every case; sometimes we are also at a loss.

Tōkaidō 37 Akasaka 赤坂The name of the thirty-sixth station Akasaka means “red slope”.One of the words for “red” in Old Irish is derg < PC *dergo-, prps. < PIE *dʰergo-.