From: Tavi
Message: 69567
Date: 2012-05-10
>Delamarre objects to this that *wºlkW-o- should have given Old Irish **flech and Gaulish **ulipos, so he links the Irish word to the ethnonym Uolcos 'falcon', which he relates to Latin falco: < *g^wol-k- (traditional *g^h), from a root *g^wel- 'to curve'.
> > On the other hand a Celtic loanword is also formally
> > possible, since we have Old Irish <olc> 'evil'; something
> > like *mori-ulk- might literally have meant 'Seeteufel'.
> > How plausible this is as a loanword under these
> > circumstances, I cannot say.
>
> Matasovic derives OIr. <olc> from PCelt. *ulkWo- 'bad,
> evil', from PIE *wlkWo- 'wolf'. He notes a Lepontic PN
> <Ulkos>. He adds a note:
>
> The meaning of this word in PCelt. could have been 'wolf',
> as in PIE. Another etymology, less persuasive in my
> opinion, relates OIr. <olc> to Lat. <ulciscor> 'take
> vengeance'.
>
> His references for this entry: LEIA O-19f., LP 43, De
> Bernardo Stempel 1999: 553, McCone 1985, McCone 1996: 44.
>