At 4:36:05 AM on Thursday, August 21, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:
[...]
> How certain is it, St. Patrick's name is Latin?
His father was Calpurnius, a deacon; his grandfather, also a
priest, Potitus. Both of these names are standard Roman
gentilicia, as is <Patricius>, and the family appears to be
Romano-British.
The name that Rick mentioned comes from his Irish captivity
and according to Jackson is properly <Sucat> [sugad].
Jackson takes it to represent Prim.Welsh *[s'&"gad], Welsh
<hygad> 'warlike'. Here [s'] stands for Jackson's
upper-case sigma, which represents some intermediate stage
in the development /s/ > /h/, and [&"] represents a ligature
of schwa and <o> that Jackson uses for what is historically
a reduced [รถ], perhaps a rounded [&].
Brian