Proto-Celtic *Noudant ....................... was Re: Nodens .....

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
> > Or is the reconstructed Proto-
> > Celtic term based solely upon Nodens?
>
> It's based on the Latinized Nodens as well as Irish Nuado (gen.
> Nuadat), Middle Welsh Nudd and perhaps Old Welsh *Nu[d]int (Latinized
> as Nu[d]inti in an early medieval stone inscription) and Old Breton
> Nodent (if the first element of this name is not actually an entirely
> different word cognate with Welsh nawdd, Irish snad- "protect").
>
> - Chris Gwinn
>

My thanks again!
So the reconstructed Proto-Celtic term is based entirely upon the
various different versions of the personal names Nodens, Nuado,
Nudd ... all which are basically the same figure. Do I understand
correctly that there are no other terms which stem from the Proto-
Celtic *noudont/*noudant , as in no impersonal terms such as a noun to
describe an item or a verb to describe an action such as
(hypothetically) using or fishing?


Sincerely,
Aydan