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in the Celtic Languages. 559
it means rather sharp and equates it with 0. Norse skarpr, Eng. sharp.
Hère SKARB would satisfy both Irish and Teutonic forms, and the same
remarks apply as in the case of no. 2 above.
(11 II. Welsh paith, 'a glance, a prospect, a scène' (Spurrell) is
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equated with Lat. -spectus in conspectus, adspectus, prospectus. Unfortuna-
f tely the meaning of the word paitli is far from certain ; Davies gives it
i as, 'desertus, vastatus.'
f 6 (261). 'Ir. daif, 'a drink'/ says Stokes, reminds one of cir.xç
ii oivo'j 'eigentlich ein maass VVein, von wo die Uebertragung aaf das
\\ Gefâss leicht ist' (Curtius no. 261). The desiderative (?) formations Ir.
II dibhe .i. tart, 'thirst', O' Clery, and Gr. ov\)a. (ex oi--c:x) possibly meant
|-| originally 'a désire for a measure of liquor'.' Daif seems to be a
)] modem form as O'Reilly has got it in his dictionary; may it not be for
i an earlier daibh with the bli hardenened into / just as final gh becomes
cil in modem Irish ? If so, one might connect it with the Welsh dafn,
*a drop of water or of any other liquid', pi. defni, Mrops'.
7 (341). Cormac's rop, 'animal rumpens,' and rap, 'animal rapiens/
., certainly strike me as technical terms made after the model of the Latin
rumpens and rapiens rather than genuine Irish words.
350). O, Ir. ùr-phaisiu, 'cancer, morbus' (Zeuss_, 268), where
paisiu is identical with fperhaps borrowed from) pastio ; the words in
arentheses contain Stokes' own admission, which leaves this instance
ithout much force as far as concems the présent enquiry.
9 (35$). 0. Ir. putte, 'cunnus'j is compared with zccO-/; and Lith.
zdà, but without a sufficient reason, perhaps, as putte isfar more likely
be a borrowed word of the same origin as French putain (whence
elsh putain), Italian putto and putta : see Diez's Dictionary of the
'.omance Languages^, i. 335. Moreover the words forming Curtius'
icle 355 seem to be badly sorted ; the Lithuanian pisà, pizdà should
not be ranged with zéoç and zcaO-r] for want of a common meaning ;
besides the Lithuanian forms look like Slavonic loanwords, and ideas
of the class conveyed by the words in question are apt in many languages
to be expresed by means of foreign words which are regarded as less
vulgar than those of home growth : the Servians hâve différent forms such
Zispichkh [ch as in church) pizdurina, and probably /j/z^a ail of which seem
to be derived from \\\&\t plka: the root is probably Fick's PIK (p. 124).
10 (357). Welsh pell, 'far' {pellach, 'further', pellaf, 'furthest'j, Bret.
pell, 'procul', is of ail his instances the one on which Stokes relies the
most. The Greek words with which he connects it are rApy., 7:épxv,
-spa'.Tspw, T.tpxvM. He admits that Windisch is right in ranging with