New Book + CD: Additions to Alfred Holder's Celtic Thesaurus by Geo

Those of you that are interested in ancient Celtic personal- and
place-names should take note of this new publication from Cambrian
Medieval Celtic Studies (CMCS); the CD containing (in MS Word format)
the searchable indexes of place-names and personal-names (courtesy of
Xavier Delamarre) and glosses (courtesy of Graham Isaac) from
Whatmough's Dialects of Ancient Gaul, as well as the headwords from
Holder's Altceltischer Sprachschatz (available in two formats -
alphabetically sorted and the original order) is worth the cost alone.

Cousin's book, while a bit over-inclusive (like the AcS itself, it
contains some names that are certainly not Celtic) and somewhat dated,
still remains a useful appendix to the AcS (many of the place name
entries include alternate ancient spellings and, where identifiable,
the modern forms of the names).


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"Additions to Alfred Holder's Celtic Thesaurus" by Georges Cousin,
together with an electronically searchable version of Holder's
headwords by Llinos Dafis & Ashwin Gohil and indexes to Joshua
Whatmough's 'The Dialects of Ancient Gaul' by Xavier Delamarre & G. R.
Isaac. Edited by Patrick Sims-Williams (2006) ISBN 0-9527478-4-7

Book + Windows- and Macintosh-compatible CD-ROM: 15 British pounds.

The above can be obtained post-free by sending name, address, credit
card number and expiry date to the following address (Libraries can be
sent copies with pro forma invoice):

CMCS Publications, Department of Welsh, Old College, King Street,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales SY23 2AX GB.
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- Chris Gwinn