I am coming a little late to this debate - hope no one minds me
jumping in.
Arnaud wrote
> Some tribe names are based on tree names,
> so my own explanation :
> Parisi < *kwr-s-i : those of the oak (Root *kwrs-u oak)
Personally, I favor an etymology where Paris(i)i is derived from PIE
*kwer- "do, make" (which gives us Welsh paraf, peri "to cause, create,
make") and I agree with John Koch (The Gododdin of Aneirin, p. 142)
that Welsh peryf "king, lord, chieftain, creator" (or alternately,
perydd "one who causes or occasions, creator, king, lord") may be
cognate with the Gallo-Brittonic ethnonym Paris(i)i.
- Chris Gwinn