Re: Volcanus>falcon?

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

> > The Parisii are a problem, if Kuhn is right that the names should
> > be etymologized as *par- + *i:s- "those at the Oise river", which
> > river joins the Seine few tens of kilometer up river from the
> > capital of the Parisii,
>
> That's an odd suggestion - does Kuhn have any backround in Celtic
> linguistics?

If you'd offer a definition of "background in Celtic linguistics" I'd
be able to offer an answer. Obviuosly, in order to sift Nordwestblock
appellatives and onomastics from those ot its Celtic, Italic and
Germanic neighbors, he has to have knowledge of these languages. I'm
afraid you'd have to check his "Kleine Schriften" yourself. I scoured
this four 500 page volume, no index collection myself yesterday for
the article in question, since I recall he had other exampes of
retained initial *p- in that area, but no luck this far.

> The suffix -iso- is found in a number of Celtic
> words/names, and has nothing to do with any hydronym. The first
> element *pari- may either come from the Gallo-Brittonic word
> for "cauldron" *pario- or from an a-grade form of the verbal root
> per- "to make, to do" (< PIE *kWer-, making the Parisii "the
> Machers" - a suitable tribal name - note that Welsh has a noun

peryf

> meaning "lord" which John Koch suggests is derived from Brittonic
> *parisos). There is no survival of a PIE -p- in this name.

Is "a-grade" a special Celtic development?

Torsten