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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado <dicoceltique@...>
wrote:
> One Suggestion about Ario-Uistus
> I think it's a Celtic word
> Are-/Ari- = before
> Uid-/Uida-/Uidi- = Sight < Knowledge
> So Ario-Uistus < anticipates man (warrior quality) or the man
> knows/guess beforehand
> I think Cesar said Ariovuistus spoke Celtic and his wife was a
> Noric Princess (Celtic too)
Thus Pokorny:
http://us.share.geocities.com/iliria1/etymology1.html
<< Old Irish aire (*arios) and airech 'nobleman, of noble people,
suitor' can belong to preposition air- 'in front of', thus 'standing
in the first place' (Thurneysen ZCP. 20, 354). >>
Cf. R. Matasovic's etymological lexicon of Proto-Celtic:
http://tinyurl.com/2v2s3x
<< Proto-Celtic: *fare 'in front of' [Preposition]
Old Irish: air, ar [aspirating, +Acc, +Dat.]
Middle Welsh: ar-, er-
Middle Breton: er-, ar
Gaulish: Are-morici [Ethnonym]
Celtiberian: are-korata (A 52)
Proto-Indo-European: *prH(i) 'in front of' >>
Regards,
Francesco