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in the Celiic Languages. ?29
mmotihiou, 'gesticulationes.' The European prototype of the Ir. so
eems to hâve been Fick's SVAP contracted SUP, whence Latin supo,
I throw or scatter', dis-sipo, 'I spread about, scatter or disperse', Lith.
up-oti, 'schwingen, schaukeln/ 0. Bulgarian sjp-ati, 'spargere, fun-
ere'.
55. 0. Welsh crih-ot, Wibrat,' [c]reh-am, 'vibro'; both occur in
16 Luxembourg Folio and in both vibrare seems te mean 'to throw, to
url, to hit' : cf. the use made of vibrare in Gildas' Loriu (Stokes. Ir.
.losses p. 138,, where one reads.
'Ut non [tjetri demones in latera
Mea vibrent, ut soieant, iacula.'
Whether h in crihot and creham is a euphonie insertion or the direct
•îpresentative of a p, as I hâve elsewhere suggested, I am inchned to
link that crih-, creh-, stand for * crip- * crep- from a root SKRAP
•'hich Fick p. 409) only instances in the sensé of throwing out in
omiting or spitting as in y^zvj.T.-yyj.'. 'I ciear my throator spit' y^çk\i.\}.x,
-.pittle, expectoration', Lith. skreplei, 'expectoration, phlegm in the
iroat'. Possibly the Welsh words should rather be connected with
ick's SK.^RP p. 407 whence he dérives v.pa'.-vic, y.as-âA'.p.s:, Lith.
r.f.ti, 'to turn, to twirl'. Compare 0. Norse skidlpa 'to tremble\
>'elsh crynu, 'to tremble' seems to imply * skrapn-,
54. Brelon quere 'Lagadeuc), /.'^'re LeGonidec;, 'ashoemaker', Welsh
-.dd, which must accordingly stand for * cerydd =^ * kerija = * kerpja
'the same origin as Lith. kàrpê {= kurpja), 'a shoe', Lat. carpisculum,
i kind of shoe' ; but most striking is the correspondence between the
iimric forms and the Greek v.pr-J.:, 7.r/]zT$oç, 'a kind of shoe or boot';
•e development of the dental from ; is to be noticed in both. The
'fference betv.een them consists in this, that crydd implies a masculine
"karpja-s, 'a shoemaker', and the Greek a féminine "^karpjâ, 'a shoe',
)th forms being probably adjectival from Fick's second KARP, p. 548.
mon -é for Welsh -ydd occurs in other words such as îrédé, 'third'
velsh trydydd,ax\àpévaré, 'fourth', (Welsh pedwerydd); as to trédé, Le
onidec adds 'selon quelques-uns iredez' — ; one would be glad to
ethe question thoroughly investigated by M. d'Arbois de Jubainville
any other able scholar who has access to Breton Mss.
55. Ir. cinis, 'orta est,' ro-chinset, 'ovû sunt,' ciniud (iar îuistiu),
•ringing forth (after begetting;,' cenél, 'a tribe' = Welsh cenedl, and,
:rhaps, Ir. cana V.'elsh cenaw and ceneu, 'a cub' — thèse words I take
Dm Stokes' Remarks p.
1 1. The old way of explaining Welsh cenedl,
jlier cenetL as identical with Gr. vsviOXr, is of course untenable, nor