eclas

According to Deborah Hayden and David Stifter, from Proto-Celtic *exs-glassos or *exs-glassā (“out(side)-stomach”) from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰs-gʰl̥H-ST-o/eh₂- from *gʰelH- (“digestive organ, stomach”), related to Old Irish gaile (“stomach”), Middle Breton elas, Breton elaz (“gizzard”), Welsh glasog (“gizzard”), afu glas (“gizzard”), Old Cornish glas (“stomach”), Ancient Greek χολάδες (kholádes, “intestines”), Ancient Macedonian γόλα (góla, “intestines”), Proto-Slavic *želǫdъkъ (“stomach”).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡl͈əs/

eclas (gender unknown)

1. stomach
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29^a26

     ar biith galar n-eclis fort-su

     for the gastric disease abides on thee

2. craw, gizzard

In the Würzburg glosses, there is attested an o-stem genitive singular eclis.

• Irish: eaglais (“gizzard”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “eclas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “eaglais”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society