From: tgpedersen
Message: 60968
Date: 2008-10-17
>I didn't get that; so there's no connection Lat. pert(ic)a > Welsh
> At 2:18:05 PM on Thursday, October 16, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@>
> > wrote:
>
> >>> Welsh perth is ultimately, it seems, from Lat.
> >>> pert(ic)a, the Roman surveying instrument par
> >>> excellence, recall the pertica militaris 'sectioned land
> >>> allotments as payment deeded (Celtic and Germanic)
> >>> mercenaries'.
>
> >> Perth (aalong with Gaulish Perta) is generally believed
> >> to be a derivative of Common Celtic *kWerkWo- "oak" (from
> >> PIE *perkWo-)
>
> > That leaves Jysk perte "beat", pirke:firke "squeeze out",
> > Da. pirke, dial. perke "to prod" (with un-Germanic p-)
> > unexplained.
>
> There's no obvious reason to connect them with <perth>
> 'wood, copse' in the first place.