Re: Andere

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "CG" <sonno3@...> wrote:

> I wrote
> > This might be related to Welsh anner (from Brittonic
> > *andera) "heifer", but Gaulish had a root andero- meaning "below,
> > infernal"
>
> I forgot to add that some see Basque andere ("woman") as a loan

from

> Celtic, as opposed to the various related Celtic words being

derived

> from Basque. See Xavier Delamarre's Dictionnaire de la langue
> gauloise (under the entry for anderos).
>
> - Chris Gwinn

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According to H. Krahe, root *and- is very much present also in
Illyrian: And•et•ri•on/And•et•ri•um (place name); personal names:
And•en•us, And•ue•ia, And•uenna (Tomaschek, B.B. 9, 99).
I wonder could this root be also related to Alb. <ânde/ënde> 'flower'
(Delamarre, IED, 155) with cognates in Greek <anthos> 'id.', Skt
<andhas-> and arm. <and>.

Konushevci