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i inde
; might
in the Celùc Languages. 527
einheit has taught us that we are not to play with the liquids / and r and
I should hesitate to refer rhew, 'frost', and lludw, 'ashes', to the same
root. Could not luaith and lludw be reguarded as what flies about
with any breath of air and be referred to the same origin as Sansk. plu,
'to swim, to spring' ? Then also luath, 'celer', and luaith, 'ashes',
be considered as connected. Another way of Connecting them
r with plu seems to be suggestedby Latin lix, 'ashes', as to which I read
in an ordinary Lat. dictionary : 'Lix cinis est, inquit M. Varro, foci :
enim cinis Hxivius potus medetur,' etc. Pliny 36, 27, 69
: '//x est
I cinis vel humor cineri admixtus : nam etiamnum id genus lixivium
,
vocatur. Non. 62, 1 1.' Lastly it may be noticed that the Welsh form
contains an élément not to be found in the Irish luaith, for it must be
regarded as standing for [p]lut-va-.
44 (385). Ir. ùr, 'fire' ^= Gr. TuDp.
45 (387). Ir. haue, 'nepos' stands according to Stokes for * pausio
to be compared with lat. pûsio and pûsiola, but I would rather equate it
with Tatç, 7:7.100!; for TràFtç, TzâFjjç especially as it is of the Ja declen-
sion : see Curtius4 p. 288 : Zeuss^ p, 229. To the same origin might
, I think, be referred Ir. or ua, 'descendant or grandson', and Welsh wyr
(with wy diphthong), 'a grandson', which shows a remarkable corres-
pondence in point of form with Lat. puer, pueri. Hère also belongs Welsh
moi (probably for ! * ym-o-i) said of a mare foaling in the Mabinogion,
iij. 30.
46. Ir. dith, "^fornax' Welsh od-yn, 'a kiln', Stokes connects with Gr.
îTÉT-pa, Ttéx-poç. So 7.â[j,ivoç and Skr. açinanta, 'oven', are cognate with
açman, 'a stone'. Some difficulty arises, however, from the fact that
; âith and odyn testify to a long vowel : but compare Cornish eth, 'hearth' (.?)
r Passion
1244.
46b. Ir. gen. plural ane, 'divitiarum', acc.pl. anu, etc. are compared
with Gr. àç-voç and Lat. opes.
This complètes the list of instances which I hâve collected in Stokes'
Remarks : I would add the following which occur to me now :
47. Welsh rhyw, 'a kind, genus', = Gothic/ra/>, 'seed, offspring'.
48. Welsh rhydd, 'free', = Goth. freis, masc. frija, fem. Eng. free.
49. RIALOBRANI, on a stone in the neighbourhood of Penzance in
Cornwall,. is tobe analysed, perhaps, ïnlo Rialo-bran-i : ihebran élément
occurs frequently enough by itself or in conpounds in names both Irish
and Welsh, and as to the other part Rialo-, it is probably a derivative
from the root PRI, 'to love', whence the English friend and its conge-
ners : see Fick - p. 1 30. How many of our Welsh words beginning