Re: [tied] Re: Irish Name = Erc

On 2006-06-18 20:17, ebairead wrote:

> From Gaelic Personal Names
> Donnchaddh Ó Corráin & Fidelma Maguire
> The Academy Press, Dublin, 1981
> ISBN 0 906187 39 7
>
> ERCC, ERC: EARC (ark) m and f. meaning either 'specked, dark-red' or
> 'a salmon'. This is a fairly common name in early pedigrees. There is
> a St Erc, bishop of Slane, whose feast-day in 2 November. In th
> eFinn-tales, Erc is one of the ladies if the Fian.

A member of the word-family derived from PIE *perk^- 'speckle'. Btw, the
similarity of form and meaning between *perk^- and *peik^- is
interesting. Just a thought: aren't we dealing with a case of (pre-)PIE
dissimilation before suffixes containing *r -- e.g. *perk^-ro- > *peik^-ro-?

Piotr