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(W. cyff) = cippus, îopp = topper, timpdn 'a. stringed musical instru-
ment' (root TAM-P, ex TAN), corp — corpus, elpa 'Alpes', spel=Gr.(x.-
Aîç, spreite root SPAR, etc. In Welsh peuo 'anhelare' (root SPU), paith
'a glance' (= lat. -spectus, root SPAK), par 'hasta' = sparus, and peil-
liaid = pollen (for *spollen, Curtius, no. 389) raay be cited as represen-
ting the combination SP.
The third part of W.'s paper deals with the British p, i. e. the p which
has arisen from KV, for he recognises no other. Hère he follows Fick in
giving a list of 20 words in which British p = Ir. c = original K. To
thèse we may add
W. pas, peswcli 'tussis', Ir. casachtach, A. S. hvosta, Ohg. huosîo. and
W. arpet now arbed 'parcere', with Ir. air-cinssim (ex * air-cheîtin) 'parco'.
Percontra I would subtract his No io,W. plant, Ir. cland,w\\\ch ave both
loanwords from Latin planta. The meanings 'proies', 'genus' are secon-
dary. The primary meanings are found in 0. W. planthonnor (gl. fodien-
tur) Juv. 88, and the Irish : is ann asait clanda intan no-da-guires sol
'tune crescunt plantae cum fovet eas sol' H. 2.16, col. 90. If plant, cland
weregenuine Celtic words, the Irish form would hâve been c/e'/. Compare
W. cant 'a hundred', dant 'tooth', tant 'string' with Ir. cet, dét, tét.
With regard to the other numbers, I will only make a few remarks.
No. 10. Ir rochinnset 'orti sunt' stands for ro-chinset (G. C* 41) and
has nothing to do with cenn or penn 'caput'. The jd sg. is cinis, Brocc.
h. 4.
No. 14. iT.fliuch is, I think, an u-stem = vliijuus.
No. I $. The Ir, (.?) agu hère cited is one of themany fabrications in
that strange glossary Duil Laithne (Goidel.^ 75). The genuine Irish forms
are the fem. «-stems aged [is fochen aged fecheman 'exoptatur debi-
toris faciès' LL. 78. b. i.) and agad. A fem. j-stem agaid also is found.
Windisch's W. gwyneb 'faciès' is another false coin, from the active
mint of Pughe. The genuine word is wyneb = * ên-ep. This of course
has nothing to do with the adjective gwynn (= Ir. find), as W. stran-
gely supposes. In the Bret. enep-guerth 'dotatio', as in the Welsh.
wyneb-werth and the Irish lôg einig, enep, wyneb, cinech mean 'honour'.
No. 19. The statement hère that the common ground-form of Ir. mag
and Goth. magu « muss maku gewesen sein » must hâve made old Jacob
Grimm turn in his grave. The common ground-form is maghu, Fick
Wœrterbuch^, 144. Ir. macc Welsh map fex "macva, "mangva *ma-n-
gh-va] may (as Rhys has suggested; come from a nasalised from of the
same root.
W. S.
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