http://blog.oup.com/2006/11/etymological_fo/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2006/11/etymological_fo/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Gavin Wraith Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:41:32 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/11/etymological_folklore_or_a_few_subdued_thoughts_on_hullabaloo/#comment-387 There is an Irish folk song, popular enough to be googled, called "Donall na Greine", in which the word "fuililiu" occurs: in line 3 of stanza 7 on the back of the sleeve of an old gramaphone record I bought in Ireland in the mid 60's - "Chuala se an fuililiu is duirt se nach bhfillfeadh se". I think "fuil" means "blood". Whether this has any bearing on "pillelew" I do not know. There is an Irish folk song, popular enough to be googled, called “Donall na Greine”, in which the word “fuililiu” occurs: in line 3 of stanza 7 on the back of the sleeve of an old gramaphone record I bought in Ireland in the mid 60’s – “Chuala se an fuililiu is duirt se nach bhfillfeadh se”. I think “fuil” means “blood”. Whether this has any bearing on “pillelew” I do not know.

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