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to VLAQv seems to hâve happened exceedingly early, for Gv became
before the séparation of the Kimric and the Goidelic nations and had
is happened before the hardening of the mute it is doubtful whether
^e Irish would hâve produced /?/uc/i. Gokhi and folcaim seem to imply
;e same root without metathesis, and contact with the/ perhaps caused
ALQ^v to become VALK for both languages; and as to g;vlych-u itmust
' regarded as either a comparativeiy modem modification of gwolch-i,
• else
a form derived by means of s from VALQy, that is VALQyS
i.bject to be simplified into VALKS whence there would be no difficulty
• arriving at the word gwlych-u.
id) Welsh cryg ïorO. W. Uric], ''hoarse' from Fick's (p. 204) SKARG,
ratzen, heiser machen/ whence he dérives y.ipyyiç^ 'rough, hoarse',
c.
e) Welsh gwregys 'for. 0. W. *gurecis\ 'a. girdle', from the same ori-
in as the Fip-; implied in £;r;vj;j.'..
:/) Welsh prèn i. e. prtnn, Ir. crann, 'a. tree', has been neatly equated
;/• Windisch with Lat. quernas which does not, as he shows_, stand for
'quercnus. The nn which puzzled him is regular.
'.\'elsh merch, 'â daughter, a girl' =r Lith. mergà 'a girl'.
/elsh gnraig, 'a woman', = lat. virgo according to Curtius
1. 1S4) from a root VARG.
i^ Ir. sera, Welsh serch, 'love'^, — Gr. a-éç^;-^, c;-:cpYr,,a curiousins-
nce of Irish following the Welsh fashion of simplifying st initial into s ;
impare Ir. sesaimm =: h~r^\j.'. for 'c'STTjy.'. [Ir. Glosses, p. 100).
'\'dsh gwlad, 0. Welsh gulat, 'a country', gwledig, 'a prince', Ir.
. ail
of which suppose *vldt = * valt from a root which in its
avo-Germanic form is given as VALDH, whence Fick dérives
1. 544;
Ger. walten, Lith. vald-yti, 0. Bulgarian vlad-ati, 'to rule',
adyka, 'a lord, prince'. The Gaulish is VLATOS (Rev. Celt. i. 298).
k] Welsh cryd, 0. W^elsh * crit) 'a cradle, the ague', daear-gryd ^
lear-gryn, 'an earthquake', Ir. crioth, 'a shaking, trembling ; the ague'
)'Reilly ,, ail from Fick's (p. 37) KARD , 'schwingen, springen
nken,' whence he dérives y.pxoiw, y.pxGa'vw; to which I add from
urtius 'p. 153) v.piT,, Lat. cardo as in tanto cardine rerum , 0. H. Ger.
'ad, 'agilis', 0. Norse hrata, 'schwanken.'
/) Welsh parth, 'a part, or portion', dosparth, 'a class, a division'
= ' do-guo-sparthj, which I am now convinced cannot be derived from
le Latin pars, partis, which is a féminine, whereas the Welsh words are
lasculines : nothing remains but to treat parth as standing for * spart
OT'sqrart] from Fick's (p. 204) SKARD 'brechen, spallen,' whence
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