Re: Gaelic and Sanskrit - and Nuada

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

> Irish Nuadu, along with its Brittonic cognate *Noudonts (Latinized as
> Nodens) and Welsh Nudd, is generally believed to be derived from the
> PIE root *neud- "to grasp for something, to acquire" which also gives
> us the Gothic word for "fisherman", nuta (literally "netter", I
> suppose - at the tenple of Nodens in Lydney archaeologists uncovered an
> image of a fisherman).

Yet another infuriating case where Germanic has a stem which almost
seems to match - *nat- > *natja- (?) > OE net(t), OHG nezzi 'net'
*no:t- > ON _nót_ 'large net'.

Richard.