Class name for the Persian branch of the Aryan family of languages. It includes Bactrian or Zend, ancient Persian, Pehlevi, Pazend, and modern Persian. The word “Iranian” is from “Arya.” See under Aryan.
Ireland, New, under [N].
Irish or Erse (Fenic).
Celtic: the native dialect of Ireland, and closely allied to Gaelic. In writing it an alphabet is still in use, formed from the Latin, and closely resembling the old Anglo-Saxon characters, which were in fact borrowed from it. See Dicty. by O’Reilly, Dublin, 1864; “Old Irish Glosses,” by Stokes and others. W. W. S.
Irofa.
Japanese alphabet, taken from the first three letters.
Iron, Irun, Iran.
A dialect of the Caucasus. See [Osset].
Iroquois, Irokese.