Hi! I need a hand concerning the meaning of the Irish word malac. Here you have a sample text using it:
DIL, S. 370: ‘a bite; a bit, a morsel’. - Z.B. ZCP 6:286.7: doboin ... feoil 7 croicind na malac cle do greim.
Any advice is welcome!

That is in Old or Middle Irish. You could ask on the Old Irish listserv at https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=OLD-IRISH-L or you could ask Dennis King on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KingDonncha1 You could also email David Stifter at Maynooth?

mala = eyebrow
(genitive smt. malacha, viz. malachdubh = having black eyebrows)

⁊ Doboin nathair neim feoil ⁊ croicind na malac cle do greim

This English translation is given in ZCP:
"And the poisonous serpent tore away the flesh and skin of his left eye-brow with a bite."

The Middle Engish original:
"Upon aghen the nadder rowe
And breide awei his right browe"

(Originally, it was the right brow, but devious as the nadder is, it attacked from the left side in Irish and so it must be the left brow of poor Bevis of Hampton )

Thank you. It makes good sense now: do bhain an nathair nímhe feóil agus croiceann na malach clé de ghreim.

Thank you. Concerning the wordo molac, I find that it is linked to noise. Can it be linked to some sort of toponym?