From: guto rhys
Message: 14653
Date: 2002-08-28
Thanks,
Are these names disussed in 'Gaulish Personal Names'?
'lugn' and 'caiso' are the only elements of which I don't remember the etymology. Perhaps someone could help me.
What's interesting is that most, or at least many, Gaulish names would have been easily comprehenible to the normal man in the street (dirt track perhpas), as the elements are often (but not always by far) drawn from contemporary Gaulish.
I wonder whether a great many are 'titles', rather than names as such? This is generally accepted as true concerning Vortigern, 'great king', and this name formation has close parallels in Gaulish. The elements of most personal names with which I am familiar have long ceased to be comprehensible to most people (Gruffydd, Robert, Fran�ois, Adolf etc.). I know nothing about early Celtic naming practices and would be interested in theories.
To what extent can we assume that the 'tribe' would have spoken the same language as the hierarchy? I can think of many examples of kings having, for polital/historical reasons names derived from other languages, rather than their mother tongues (Alexander in Scotland, Phillip in Spain, Edward I in England etc.).
Guto
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