Revue celtique - National Library of Scotland

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The Loss of Indo-European p
be hard not to identify Ir. Doinhnall with Welsh Dyfnwal (the same rn
is, I believe, called Domhnall Breac in Irish, and Dyfnwal Frych inW(jh
tradition)^ and Ir. Conall with Welsh Cy/?u'a/. In Welsh *m/ survives ;o
in the adjective dy-wal, 'crudelis, atrox' (Davies), whence has bji
formed dywal-gi; 'a tiger' ; how or whether gwal-adr in such name:;s
Cadwaladr is related to the words in question is not clear to me it
would seem to imply a verbal thème valpa-.
6i. The early Welsh proper name VLCAGN-VS and VLCAGN-I, n
Irish Ogam Ulccagn-i which Stokes identifies with the modem 1 h
Olcdin (p. 29). The termination gna-, genitive gni one is inclineclo
identify with the Gaulish -cnos, genitive -cni in such names as Oppii-
knos, Toutissicnos, Drutikni, etc. : compare the endingofthe Greek wcis
xuXi'xv^, '::t/d'/yri,T.ok'.'/rr,^ r.iixyyov also rÀ'cr/.vo') (Curtius 4 pp. 2t,
493). With Ulcagnus, compare Maglagni on an early inscribed stomjn
S. Wales, and such Ogam iorms as Artagni, Mailagni, Talagni^ Tasegal
Dalligni, Qunilocgni in Ireland : thus we seem to hâve in Ulcagni a t!e
* Ulca which I take to stand for * Pulca to be compared with thej.
German name Fulco, and the English Foulke, in which, suppoi^
Grimm's Law to hâve been observed, we must suppose thecor k to std
for an earlier g and so in the Welsh and Irish name : Stokes cites a Gi-
lish form VLKOS (Rev. Celt. I, 298). In the Celtic languages metathis
has very commonly taken place where the séquence was mute, vov',
liquid (/ or r), mute, but the provection of the mute took place still ( -
lier as in the following instances :
a) Welsh drych, *a looking-glass' ; the aspect or lookof athing' [edr-
'to look'; for ' dricc =: * dercc of the same origin as oÉpy.-to, Sansk. d. ,
perfect, dadarça.
b) Welsh crocli' 'rough, véhément', = " corcc = A. Sax. h ^
hreâh, ''rough, fierce, stormy, cruel'.
c) 0. Welsh gulip [i. e. gwlip), nov^ gwlyb, 'wet', Ir. fliuch, fromwljh
one cannot separate Welsh golclii (for gwolchï), 'to wash', Ir.folcifi
'humecto, lavo', and Welsh gwlych-u, 'to wet, to moisten' ; but how le
they connected ? They are ail traceable to Fick's (pp. 544, 609) V
whence he dérives Lith. vilg-yîi, 'naessen, anfeuchten/ Pruss. )\\
'Schnupfen, Rheuma,' 0. Bulgarian vlaga, A. -Sax. wlaec, 'warm, kf-
warm, slack, remiss' (Bosworth), Eng. welkin, Germ. welck, Wolke. N|v
Fick's VALG, as the g is not palatalized in the Litu-Slavic langua{|,
should rather be written VALGv, which in Celtic became VALQv wheje
by metathesis the vliqv- which would regularly resuit in 0. Welsh gb
and ir. jUuch ; by the way it may be noticcd that the change from VL\v
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