Re: [tied] Re: Ducks and Souls

11-09-03 17:03, tgpedersen wrote:

> English-Irish Dictionary of Bird Names
>
> http://gofree.indigo.ie/~cocaomh/English-Irish%20Dictionary.htm
>
> Swallow
>
> ... Áinleog, Áinle [orig. Fannall, Fáinneáil ? Fluttering or
> Circling]; ...
>
> Swift
>
> ... Áinle [see Swallow]
>
>
> (but is it close enough semantically and phonologically?)

Scottish Gaelic fainleag, Welsh gwennol, Old Irish fannall 'swallow',
VLat. *vannellum 'lapwing' (e.g. Fr. vanneau). I'm not sure about the
correct Proto-Celtic reconstruction, perhaps *wenna:lo-, but definitely
with an initial /w/, whose reflex has been dropped only in Modern Irish.

Piotr