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Celtic Notes

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GLGeorge S. Lane

Key Points

  • This work aims to explore and analyze etymological connections among various Celtic words and their Indo-European roots.
  • Comparative analysis of Celtic languages and their historical connections.
  • Etymological examination of specific terms across languages.
  • Identified several Celtic words with shared roots in Proto-Indo-European.
  • Highlighted semantic borrowings and linguistic evolution across languages.

Abstract

Ir. āsaim (NIr. fāsaim) ‘grow’ : Goth, wahsjan, etc. 2. W blin ‘ tired’ < IE *mlēno - or *mlīno- from the root *mel- ‘rub, grind’. 3. Ir. breo ‘flame’ : OE brīwan, brīw, etc. 4. W brig‘t op, crest’ : Grk. . 5. Ir. bun, W bon ‘bottom’ from the root *bhen- ‘strike’ in Goth, banja, etc. 6. W clwyf ‘ wound, disease’ : Skt. klībá -. 7. Ir. c rēcht ‘wound’ : MLG schrā, ON skrā, etc. 8. Ir. fennaim ‘flay’ : Skt. pari-vās -, etc. 9. Ir. gāba ‘danger’ : Russ, zabóta , OE cēpan. 10. W gosod ‘put’ derived from the root *st(h)ā - ‘stand’. 11. W hawdd ‘easy’, gwahodd ‘invite’ : Skt. sādhú-. 12. W hogen ‘girl’ from the root *seu-q- ‘suck’. 13. Br. miz ‘expense’ from OFr. mise. 14. Br. piz ‘stingy’ semantic borrowing from Fr. chiche. 15. On Ir. serrach ‘foal’. 16. W tor ‘tear’ : Lith. tárpas , etc. 17. W trwch ‘ broken, maimed’ : Lith. trúkti.

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George S. Lane (1937) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69eb0a2e553a5433e34b45f9https://doi.org/10.1017/409170
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