Heard about a 9th century Irish monk's lament for excessive drinking scribbled in the #Ogham script on a Latin grammar book. The single-word note says #LATHEIRT, meaning 'drunkenness' or 'hangover'. According to an Old Irish dictionary, this is a compound of LAITH 'ale' + IRT 'death'. Ale-death is such an interesting word.

Institutiones Grammaticae, p. 204 (e-codices)
https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0904/204

Sanas Chormaic, p. 102 (Internet Archive)
https://archive.org/details/sanaschormaicco00stokgoog/page/n120/mode/2up

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