Re: [tied] Celtic duck

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado <dicoceltique@...>
wrote:

>
> Hello
> i 've nothing etymologic term Anas = duck in Celtic or

Protoceltic

> Insula Anas = Duck Island, i think i'ts a mistake
>
> * Anas = River name in Oretani tribe (Iberia)
> * Anatia/Anation = Soul < Welsh Enaid/Eneit
> * Anatio/Anatla = Breath
> IE Henh (Breathe) Breton Anal. Welsh Anadl. Manx Ennal. Old

Irish Anal.

> Grec Uz-anan (To Expire)
> Sanskrit An/Aniti and Anila (Wind)
> * Anate-mori = Personal name genitive = Anatemoros = with soul

of sea

> * Anatili = Ligurian tribal name
>
> * And-a = Inferior/Under Welsh Anner/Dan
> Insula Andesia < Insula Ands < Insula Ans = The inferior

Island ?

> * Ande = Intensive prefix Welsh An. Old Irish An/Ind
> Insula Andusia < Insula Ands < Insula Ans = The great Island ?
>
> but nothing with Ans = ducks !!!!!!!!
>
> Insula Ans for me, means The extreme Island
> In Celtic "boundary" = Anto/Antom, look at the bilingual

Vercelli inscription :

> Anto =Finnis in Latin
>
> I E Antjo (End)
> Germanic Andjaz/Ent (End). Gotic Anda. Old Frisian Enda. Old

Norse Endir. Old German Enti. Englishs Ante/End. German/Danish Ende.
Deutsch Einde. Suedish Anda

> Grec Anti (Againts)
> Hittite Hanti (Againts) Sanskrit Antah (Boundary)
>
> Anto-ialon = the glade end = place name in France
>
> * Anteuil (Doubs) Antogilus
> * Antheuil (Côte d'Or) Antolium 1175
> * Antheuil (Oise) Antoilum

1214

> * Antuéjouls ( Cantal) Anatolium
> and personal name
> * Anto-broges = Celtic tribe = The people who lives in the

extremity of the land

> * Anto-pate = Personal name = ?
> * Antros Insula = Place name in Aquitania
>

Exactly. The consensus is that *anat- "duck" didn't exist in Prpto-
Celtic, but if Hamp's proposal is right, then it did. No mistake
here.


Torsten