Re: Gaelic and Sanskrit - and Nuada

From: CG
Message: 36926
Date: 2005-04-05

> Would you happen to know the etymology of the Welsh terms "noddi"
(to
> protect) and "nawdd" (protection)??

Welsh nawdd is cognate with Old Irish sna'd- "protect", so it must
come from something like a Common Celtic *sna:do-. I imagine that
noddi is simply a derivative of nawdd.

- Chris Gwinn

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