Spring

"Errach or Spring began on the first of February. This day was called oimelc, imbolg, or imbulc : the first form oimelc is given in Cormac's Glossary (p.127, "?i"), where it is derived from ?i, a sheep, and melc or melg, milk : "?i-melg, 'ewe-milk,' for that is the time the sheep's milk comes." That oimelc is the first of February we know from Peter O'Connell's Dictionary, where oimelc is identified with F?il Brighde (St. Brigit's feast day), which has been, and is still, the Irish name for the first of February all through Ireland, the old Pagan name oimelc being obsolete for centuries."

provided by P.W. Joyce in his 'A Social History of Ancient Ireland' (1903) Longmans, Green, and Co.

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