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in the Celtic Languages. 5 5
. considerably shaken by Lith. czesnâkas, 'knoblauch,' O. Slav. cesniiku,
I which Stokes has drawn my attention.
57. Welsh celwrn, 'a tub or pail', seems to be a derivative from an
- base calpu- of the same origin as greek vSKra,, -/SkrAq Lat. calpar,
ith which Fick has compared Sanskr, kharpara, 'the cranium'.
58. Welsh gwenyn, 'bées', singular gwenynen, Breton guenanen (Laga-
i;uc) : in thèse words gwen- may possibly stand for * vespn-, of the
jme origin as Eng. wasp, Lat. vespa, etc. ; but perhaps it would be
lîtter to connect the Kimric words with Welsh ^wa/z-u'topierce', whence
venyn would mean the piercers i. e. stingers.
i {9. Welsh erth-wch 'flatus et anhelitus ex magno conatu proveniens,
emitus/ erth-ych-ain, 'prospirare, anhelare, vehementer perfre-
>ere' (Davies;, to which may be added from Pughe erth-u, 'to make
II effort; to pufï.' Thèse words seem to be of the same origin as
tpoo), r.opzr,, Lith. pirdà, Ger. furz ; but as the former do not betray the
ilgar meaning, it would seem the latter is a secondary one. Formally
ifh would stand for earlier * perd, which became erd- then ert- which in
tod. Welsh must further become erth- as in erth-u. Other instances
; this kind of provection of mute consonants following / or r will be
sntioned later.
160. Welsh Cynwal, a man's name, 0. Welsh Congual, Early Welsh
VNOVAL-l, the name of Rialobran's father on the stone, already allu-
d tO;, in the neighbourhood of Penzance : hère the bases concerned
e cma and vala. The latter I take to stand for valpa =: Eng. wolj
nich, if this suggestion is well founded, Fick fp. 882) must not sup-
ise to represent an European * valka. On turning to Fœrstemann's
Meatsches Namenbuch (L 1^39) Ifmdthat our Cynwal corresponds letter
r letter to Huniilf ; not to mention the équation hun = cuna which
?available for a number of other Celtic and Teutonic names, I may add
'.1er names in point common to Celts and Teutons, such as Welsh
Mwal-an == 0. H. Ger. Bodalf, Bozulf or Godulf (but which.?) ; Cad-
1/ for early " Catu- val- =: 0. Ger. Hathovulf; Guingaal which would
/w be Gwyn-wal (but it does not seem to occur) = 0. Ger. Winulf ;
dgual, later Idwal =: O. Ger. Idulf or Eudulf; Rhyddwal = 0. Ger.
iulf or Fridulf ] Tiidn'al=i 0. Ger. Theudulf. Others no doubt, who are
kter acquainted with Teutonic names, may fmd many more of the
iid : I will only add that in Irish the v as well as the p would disap-
lar so that * valpa- would appear reduced to al : accordingly one fmds
lit Irish Cathal, and Tiiathal correspond exactly to the Welsh Cadwal
•à Tudwal; and in spite of the //, which I cannot account for, it would
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