Consider these two words plucked from MacBain's Dictionary of Scottish
Gaelic:
caoimhneas = kindness. This word is supposed by folk etymology to be from
caomh,
kind, whereas it is really allied to Old Irish
coibnes,
affionitas,
*co-ven-estu-, root ven of fine, q.v
caoirean = a plaintive song; also caoi-ràn, moaning (H.S.D.). The root
word
is caoidh;
possibly ràn, roar, forms the latter part.
The first of them is close akin, and likely a variation of the word you're
defining as Lament, while the second is more the definition of a Lament.
Of
course, I am not fluent in either Irish or Scottish, so check out anything
I
say, here.
Liam
"Erynn" <ceinwyn_star@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:f30d4cc3.0401181516.6bab2545@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I believe that the spelling "Caoimhneagdh" is the Scots Gaelic version
> of the word Lament.
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