Padus
From: alex_lycos
Message: 21545
Date: 2003-05-05
padus (-i)= Harzbaum, Pechtanne: gall. nach Metrodor. Sceps. bei Plin.
nat 3,122 zur Erklärung des FN "Padus".
Kretschmer suppose the word should be celtic and from the samme root
with the Greek (ark.) "Padoessa", from /with "pedos" = a tree.
A tree is not grass, even if the grass is tall enough.
Seems more appropiate to Alb. "pyll" and "pãdure" as the Latin
"paludem", semanticaly and phoneticaly.