Revue celtique - National Library of Scotland

1 36 Périodiques.
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: 'anman (for original naman), *ànma, 'anm, "anùm, 'imuv, 'anu with which
compare the double forms crrriv and cwryf,'hter, and ulw and ulyf, 'hot ashes':
similarly enuein, for which later Welsh substitutes enw-au, 'names' implies the
séries *anmana, 'cnmena, 'enmen, 'enamen, *enuven, 'enuen, enuein : Cimmaetic can
hardly be for cim-mav-ctic : rather ought it to be perhaps am-mag-ctic from the same
root mag as cyfodh, 'wealth', the latin conqiieslos, which it is meant to explain
having been confounded with conquisitos through the influence of the med. lat.
conqucstus, u pro quibuslibet bonis quavis ratione acquisitis; etiam quse a pâtre
et matre hsereditario iure quis possidet. » (Ducange). Possibly aiso mcdd-u 'to
possess' = megcd-u. It is to be hoped that tum, 'a bend, a turn', which Ebel
has suggested to Mr. Stokes to explain dattotimb, is a bona fide Welsh word :
Pughe has it, but without a quotation to support it. Perhaps dMolimb means
dattotim a noun of the same forms as the infinitives molim etc. to be analysed dat-
dotim or datt-otim; for the quotations just given from the Mabinogion show that
both dodi and odif sometimes meant Ho throw' : hère dattotimb would mean the
act of 'throwing up or vomiting' referred to in the latin « cum coactissima ges-
tione vomueris; » \{ dattotimb is to be referred strictly to gcstionc one mighl'
expect that to hâve been egcstione. To thèse forms we may add diod, which i
occurs frequently in the Mabinogion in the sensé of 'throwing or casting aside'i
and of'stripping off' arms or clothes. I
Liiird (gl. horti) tor*lubgirtli : sing.'lubgarthvjhence the modem lliiarth seems
to indicate that u in this instance had not attained its modem sound approa-'
ching German ù. Of course Pughe when he renders « Bid las lluartli, » « Loi
a camp be green » had no notion that lluanh is simply 'a garden' and not '.
camp'.
BEinNiAD. An article on 'YGymraeg a'r Lladin by Rev. J. B. Jones B. A.
Bridgend, appeared in the number for July 1872 of this periodical pp. 7^-80
It contains some ingénions conjectures, but cannot be considered satisfactory, a;
the learned author is evidently unacquainted with Zeuss.
Traethodydd. a second article on 'Hen Lyfrau y Cymry' has appeared ir,
the number for January 1873, pp. 35-$!, of this periodical. It contains notice;'
ofafewbooks and éditions unknown belore, and interesting particulars concernin§
others. In the number for April of the same year, John Peter has an article or
' William Salesbury fet Llysicuwr being a description of a Botanical work ir
Ms. by the eminent translator of the New Testament into Welsh. It contain;
several new words, and a few new botanical terms not found in Hugh Davies'
work.
Dysgedydd. This is a monthly, the organ of the independents, and now ir
its 52^ year. There appeared in the number for January 1873, pp. ii-ij at
article by John Peter entitled 'Dodo (aunty) being a short illustration of th(
principlc; that language is an instrument of Ethnology. Another article, by the.