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Grummuficul and Etymoloc/icul A nalijcits of Gcneslti 1. 1-S. 41Tolseach (beginning) is dat. of mas. noun toiseach, gen. toisichIn Old Gael, toiseach was in nom. tosach and tossach, and indat. tosuch, tonsuch, tosug, and tossug, all which forms are foundin Zeuss. Toiseach and its related words toiseach (princeps) andtiis (beginning) for * tonus, are derived from the root tuv, whichis connected with the Skr. root tu (to increase), tuv-i (strong),tav-i-mi (to be strong), Zend tu (to have power), Gr. rai/y, forTuF-vs (strong), Goth, thiv-an (to prevail upon), A.S. thit-ma(thumb), O.H.G. dil-mo (thumb), Eng. thu-mh. Cf Welsh twf(increase, growth), tyfu (to grow). See root tu in Williams'Skr. Dictionary; cf. also Curtius' Grundzlige, 4th ed., p. 225.The loss o{ V in tils (beginning) is shown by the W. touysogion,now tywysogion, tyivys. To the same root belongs Gael, tuath(people).Chridhaich (created, formed), of which the inf in O. Gael, wascruthugud, is the pret. ind. act. of the verb cruthaich (create)from cruth (form). Cruth, a it-stem, of which the gen. in 0. Gael,is crotho ( = * crutavas) seems connected with the Indo-Europeanroot kar (to do, to make), Skr. root kar (to do, to make), kar-tr(completer, creator), Gr. root Kpa, Kpav, whence Kpalv-w (I complete),Lat. cre-o (I create), Lith. kiir-iu, kur-ti (to build). CfStokes' Irish Glosses, p. 71, Curtius' Grundz., p. loi, and Pick'sVergl. Wort., p. 520.Dia (God) is nom. to verb ehnitlniich. The gen. sing, is Liand the nom. plur. die or diathan. Dia {= Di, for ia = e), whichhas dropped an original v as may be seen by compai-ino- W.Byw, is connected with Lat. div-us (divine) and deus (God), Gr.Sio'i ( = ciFio