Re: Druid, anybody?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa" <eris@...> wrote:

>
> I think it was Piotr(?) who brought it up the Bartleby link awhile
> back...
>
> IE root "deru" / "dreu":
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE87.html
>
> Two other links:
> http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb14.html#draoi
> http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb12.html#darach
>
> Assuming we do go with Proto-Celtic *dru-wid as the basis

of "druid",

> would the above information suggest that PC kept both versions of

the

> IE word for "tree" (using them differently, of course)? And if so,
> would would the actual PC roots and meanings for both be?