Re: Fw: [tied] Pferd

Not a problem with coming a little late

I think everybody is entitled to add his or her contribution to the debate.

My questions are :

How do you account for the fact that this "Parisii" tribe

would be named in such a (strange) way ?

Do you have a Welsh or Irish tribe that is thus named ?

Can the -f- in "peryf" come from -s- as in *kwer_s_ ?

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Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Fw: [tied] Pferd

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