Editing Nemed (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''nemed'' means "privileged" or "holy" in [[Old Irish]],<ref>''[[Uraicecht Becc]]'' ("Little Primer") (transl. 1881).</ref> and "seems to have been a designation of a [[druid]]".<ref name="ohogain">Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí. ''Myth, Legend & Romance: An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition''. Prentice Hall Press, 1991. p.&nbsp;318</ref> The reconstructed [[Proto-Celtic language]] root ''nemos'' means "sky" or "heaven". In the [[Celtic polytheism|ancient Celtic religions]] a [[nemeton]] was a [[place of worship]] (which included temples, shrines and sacred natural places).<ref name=Koch1350>Koch, John T. ''Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia''. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2006. p.&nbsp;1350.</ref><ref name=Green>Green, Miranda. ''The Celtic World''. Abdingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 1996. p.&nbsp;448.</ref><ref name=Dowden134>Dowden, Ken. ''European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages''. Abdingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2000. p.&nbsp;134.</ref> Similar roots are found in place names across [[Celts|Celtic culture]].<ref name=Green/> For example, there was a [[Nemetes]] tribe of the central [[Rhine]] area, who had a goddess [[Nemetona]].<ref name=Koch1350/>