Re: Sin once more

> Of the three explanations proposed here for <Pari:sii:>, Hans Kuhn's
> seems to me by far the most plausible. Xavier Delamarre would have
> us believe that they were eponymously descended from Ma and Pa
> Kettle. Chris Gwinn's 'Makers, Doers' are too generic, unless they
> were the original 'Masons', heck-bent on secretly running the world
> from Paris.

Have you made any kind of study of Celtic tribal names from that
period? "Makers/Doers" would have been a perfeclt normal tribal name -
and (as I believe I mentioned in a previous message) the name may be
cognate with the Welsh noun perydd "king, lord (also creator, doer)".

Compare other Celtic "king/lord/sovereign" tribal names such as
Bituriges "Kings of the World/Existence", Brigantes "Elevated/Superior
Ones", Catuuellauni "Battle Sovereigns", Caturiges, "Battle Lords",
Segouellauni "Victory Sovereigns", Uellauni "The Sovereigns", et al.

- Chris Gwinn