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Sent: Wednesday,
August 28, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [tied]
personal names
> *gHaiso- occurs only in Celtic
and Germanic with the meaning 'spear, javelin' (Latin gaesum, Gk. gaison ~
gaisos 'javelin' are of course loans from Gaulish). But Gk. kHaion
'shepherd's staff' (< *gHaisom) is a likely cognate.
>> Does it have a reflex in
English?
Of course, how else? Guess what it is.
:)
> What is the relation between Latin
'gladius' and Welsh 'cledd' (=sword, from '*cladobio', according to University
of Wales Dictionary)?
The OIr. cognate of <cledd, cleddyf>
is <claideb>. It seems to me that Lat. gladius with its irregular
phonetics can only be a loan from Gaulish. Lat. culter 'knife' is perhaps
related, if the Celtic word is ultimately a derivative of *kel- 'cut, pierce,
split'.
Piotr