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in the Celtic Languages. 325
Then corne a few instances which he considers doubtful : the first is Ir.
kthan, Welsh llydan, 'broad', compar. lletach, superl. iletaf, of the same
origin as Gr. 7:Xa-c6ç, Lith. platùs, Skr. prtha. With llyd.m compare bychan
and baclu, 'small, little'. I should not call this a doubtful instance at ail.
30. The next doubtful instance he gives is the rapprochement by
Stokesof Ir. reulh, Welsh rhew, 'frost', with Lat. pruina and its congeners:
the doubt hère also is not very considérable.
1 . More doubt 3
attaches to Siokes' and Siegfried's fmding the Irish
représentative of Sanskr. pad-, Gr. ;:;$- in od-brann, 'talus/ which
Stokes would equate with a conjectured Sanskr. pada-bradhna on a level
with çata-hradhna'\\^inàrtà-T^o\nXtA\ Htxt"^ ds\ieddwyd, 'ivisti' (Davies)
etc. would seem to belong.
To thèse I subjoin the following from Stokes' Remarks on the Celtic
additions to Curtius' Greek Elymology : the numbers in brackets are those
of the articles in the latter work à propos of which they are mentioned
by him :
32 i 100). Ir, oech' 'enemy', = A. Sax. fâh, Eng. foe.
33 {lo-j). Ir. lecc, 'flagstone', whence lecdn, 'lapillus,' Welsh llech
= * planca : cf. Gr. tC/J-ç and Lat. planca, Pkncus, etc.
34 [343). Ir. aicc, 'a bond', is referred by Stokes tothe same origin
as Lat. pango. If the root could be regarded as being PAG and not PAC
I should refer to it the eu of eurwy, a sort of yoke or ring to fasten cattle
in their stalls : in South Wales there is a mountain chain called Yr
Eurwy : cf. a similar use of Lat. juguin. It has pleased Pughe to mention
only eurwy, 'a gold ring', which is possibily not entirely of his own
making.
35. Ir. //, 'colour', Welsh lliw, are mentioned as having possibly lost
an initial/?; and Ir. alad, 'speckled', isequated with Sansk. palita, Greek
ztK'.-^/i:. The stock of words to which the Eng. fallow, Ger. falb, belong,
are especially to the point and so is Fick's 0. H. Ger. falawisca, M. H.
Ger. valwisclie, velwesche, 'ashes, dust^ motes.' He gives the Slavo-Ger-
manie base as PALVA, ^falb,' the early Welsh reflex of which I
think I detect in the form ilv, probably meaning dun, grey or some
nearly approaching colour in the epithet Ilvveto (on the Trallong stone
near Breconj;, probably for ilva-veto, in the genitive case ; the latter
part veto = 0. Ir. Fétho, genitive of Féth (Goidelica^ p. 84). The whole
inscription is well worth mentioning : the Roman characters read
CVNOCENNI FILIVS CVNOCENI HIC lACiT (the characters
forming [dias are considerably 'debased'j. The Ogam reads CVNA-
CENN— I ILVVETO, of which the former name must, I think_, be a