Hello
someone can give me the etymology about the Irish Name "Erc" ?
1 - From IE Arg-/Erg- = Shine/White ? < Arganto-
Celtic Argios = White cf Breton Erc'h and Welsh (Eiry) = snow
Old Cornique Irch = Snow . Old Irish Arg = Warrior/Hero
Grec Argos = Shining and Arkhos = Leader
Persian Arshan = Man
2 - From IE Erk- = Oak < Sky/Heaven?
Erkunia = forest oak. Erku = Oak = cosmologic tree (?)
Gotic Fairhvus = earth
Lituanien Perkunas = Storm god
Germanic Furkhon (Pine tree) < Gotic Fairguni (Mountain-Oak Grove) <
Anglo-Saxon Firgen (Mountain) et Anglish Fir (Pine tree). Old High
German Fergunna/Foraha < German Föhre (Pine tree). Old Norse Fjqrgyn
(Land). Lombard Fereah (Kind of oak)
Grec Erkúnios Drúmos (Hercynia Silua). Latin Quercus (Oak)
Hindi Pargai (Green oak). Sanskrit Parkati/Paraktah (Fig tree)
Hercuniates people = people who live in Oak grove
Erkuna ? = Forêt d'Argonne in French = Sylva Arguenneis 967
Erco-lana = Ercolana (Italie) = Oak plain
Quarqueni = Venetian people < Illyrian
*Ercus = Personal name Gallish
*Erinon = Kind of plante. Written by Pseudo Dioscoride et may-be
deterioration of de Er(k)inon (little oak)
*Land-erka = clearing here
http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/pcl-moe.pdf
Other ?
Celtic Perkeno < Welsh Perchen = Owner( ?)