--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> Life's stranger that you would imagine. Ved. pr.thivi: comes from
> *pl.th2u- 'wide, flat' (= Ved. pr.thu-) plus the feminine-forming
suffix -i:. The same adjective is familiar from Greek (platus), and an
exact cognate of <pr.thivi:> can be seen in the Celtic name of
Brittany (Gaulish Litavia, Welsh Llydaw). If *pl.th2รบ- were found
in
Germanic, it would be something like *fuldu-.
>
> Piotr
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"Flat" doesn't seem a particularly apt descriptor for Brittany.
See
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
s/images.php3?img_id=15360
But place names wander and spread. Who knows what or where the
original Llydaw was?
Dan Milton