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Rh   for math, but evidently once for fern, good, *verno-s, Lat. supernus (cf. -no- of magnus disappearing in major, and -ro- of Celtic mâros in G. mò). Stokes refers ferr to vers, raise, *uersos-, height, top; Lat. verruca, steep place, Lit. wirzùs, top, Skr. varshman-, height, várshîyas, higher. Cf. W. goreu, best (= Lat. supremus).

féile, féileadh, a kilt, E. Ir., O. Ir. fíal, velum: O. Ir. ronfeladar, he might clothe us; from Lat. vêlum, a covering, vêlare, Eng. veil. In Islay, Jura, etc., it is an t-sibhleadh. McL. and D.  20