From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 16200
Date: 2002-10-13
It is most like related to the Irish words bag "combat", and
bagach "combative", as well as Middle(?) Welsh kymwy (*com-bag-
) "affliction", and likely meant something like "combatants". It has
the same suffix as Gaulish alauda "lark" (alouette) and bascauda.
See Xavier Delamarre's "Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise" (which
is the best resource for Gallo-Brittonic etymologies right now).
- Chris Gwinn
Thanks; I'll pass it on.
David Fickett-Wilbar