claim: Mellila is a Spanish town.
evidence: Straif is the Irish name of the fourteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet , ᚎ .. Irish. Irish language. Ogham. Ogham. Old Irish spelling variants are straif , straiph , zraif , sraif , sraiph , sraib .. Irish. Irish language. The Briatharogam kennings for the letter are  :. Briatharogam. Briatharogam. tressam ruamnai `` strongest reddening ''. morad run `` increase of secrets ''. saigid nel `` seeking of clouds ''. The probable meaning of the name is `` sulphur '' .. sulphur. sulphur. The first two kennings could be explained by the main use of sulphur as dye , and its alchemical significance , respectively .. sulphur. sulphur. alchemical. alchemy. The third kenning could be a corruption of saiget nel `` arrow of the clouds '' , i.e. sraibtine `` lightning '' .. lightning. lightning. An alternative kenning has aire srabae `` chief of streams '' , and glossators adhering to the `` Tree Alphabet '' base an identification with draigen `` blackthorn '' on this , by thinking of a `` hedge on a river '' .. blackthorn. blackthorn. The `` chief of streams '' kenning may be referring to sulphur by reference to the stream of brimstone , sruth -LSB- s -RSB- ruibhe , mentioned in Isaiah 30 :33 .. sulphur. sulphur. Isaiah. Isaiah. The letter 's original phonetic value is uncertain , but it may have been -LSB- st -RSB- , -LSB- ts -RSB- or -LSB- sw -RSB- .. The medieval manuscript tradition transcribes it with Latin Z.