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Dai, that which gives exis

tence; a name of the Deity. Duw, God.

Daw, a boon; cf. didwμ.
Dawn, a gift, (Donum.)
Daionus, good, kind.

Daioni, goodness, &c.
The connection of God and
Good seems clear in the Welsh.
Cf. Duonus and Divinus.
In Gael. Daonna, humane.
CABALLUS, G. caball; qu. from
G. cab, mouth, and àl, horse;
i. e. horse trained to the bit.
CALVUS, G. calbh, bald.
CALLEO, CALLIDUS, called,
hard, call, G. céillidh, pru-
dent.

CAMURUS, camm.
CANUS, cann, white.

CANDIDUS, cannaid.
CANO, canu, G. can.
CAPIO, cip, a snatch; cipio, to
snatch up; Eng. keep.

G. ceap, to snatch; gabh, to
take.

CARUS, car, and caru, to love;

ἐράω? χάρις ? CARIES, gôr, G.gaor, gore, filth. CAUSSA, G. cùis.

CELLA, CELO, Cel, Celc,

hiding-place; cell, closet, arbour; celt, covert, aλtos? celtu, to hide. G. cùil, a nook, xotλos? ceil, hide, conceal; ceal, concealment; cealt, clothes; ceall, a cell, a church. COELUM, G. Ceal, death, heaven; (qu. the hidden world, aïons?) This may throw

doubt on the diphthong in coelum, and its relation to κοίλον.

CERTUS, G. ceart, right, just. [Yet as Ceart, by Gaelic derivation, means τετράγωνος, either the likeness to Certus is accidental, or Certus does not come from Cerno.] CESTUS, G. ceast, girdle. Cf. Homer's κεστὸν ἴμαντα. CISTA, cest, twig-basket; also cist, a coffer, from Latin? CLARUS, claer.

CLAUDO, clwydo, to wattle in. CLAUDUS, cloff. COLO, G. coill, to castrate. COLUMEN, G. calpa, pillar, calf (of leg); calba, colpa, do. and colmh, columhan, pillar, pedestal. Hence Calpe, pillar of Hercules? COм, CON, G. Comh, in composition. It seems to unite Guy and qua (Sanskr. sam.) meaning evenness or equality, as well as combination. Thus Comhaois, dμñλik, aequalis, comhnard, planities. The Welsh seems to have developed two words, Cyn and Cyf for σὺν and ἅμα, ὁμοῦ.

COMIS, G. caomh, placidus, mitis, amicus; perhaps from Comh.

COPIA, G. cob. CREO, creü.

CRUDUS, cri, G. crauaidh. CULCITA, colcaidh, a feather bed; from colc, aneider-duck.

CUNEUS, cun, gaing; G. cuin

ne, geuin.

CUPA, Cwppan; G. cup.

CURA, cur.

CURTUS, G. goirid; xapw?

Eng. Shear, Short.

DE (of), G. de.

DE (privat.) G. de.

DEUS, Duw, Dew, G. Dia. See
Bonus.

DIVINUS, duwin, dewin.
DENS, dant.

DIES, dydd, G. di.

DONUM, dawn; also Sansk. But see Bonus. DORSUM, G. druim. DURUS, Dur, steel; duraw, to harden; durio, to whet. G. dur, dull, obstinate; durga, surly. ELEMENTUM, elfen. The Welsh

is here remarkable. El, a spirit (cf. Heb.); elf, a moving principle, a spirit, Eng. Elf; elff, a pure state; elfen, an element.

ENS, a participial ending. En, a being; Enaid, the soul; Eni, to exert the soul; Enig, full of soul, lively; Endid, existence. (Here this patriarchal language carries back the mind to a time when Latin and Greek had not yet de

veloped their grammar! This is no Italian Celtism.) Ex, es, G. as.

FALLO, G. feall, to betray, deceive. Hence Eng. Felon, (traitor.)

FLACCIDUS, G. floch.

FLAMMA, fflam; from ffloi, to radiate. Cf. pλoy. FLOS, G. flùr.

FLUO, ffreuo; also lli, a flow or flood.

FREMO, fromm, angry; frommi, to chafe. But also ẞpéuw. FRIGUS, ffer, rigid, cold; G.

fuar, cold. But also piros. ῥῖγος. FRONS, ffrin, brow, edge of a hill. (The W. seems not to have the primary sense.) GRATIA, G. gradh, love. JUVENIS, ieuant;

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32 The Icelandic has Bleidi, mollis, macero; Blida, blanditiæ, mitigo; Blidr, blandus; Blenda, misceo, tempero; Eng. blend. The purest root is probably the Gr. xxía, to be warm and soft; (perhaps to steep and soften in warın water,)

where initial xλ becomes 1 or bl in mouths which reject the xλ. Hence blot, blend, blandus, blithe, lætus, and perhaps lenis; but glad, glee, &c., seem to belong to quite a different root, which means brightness, yiλa.

hymn, perhaps ecclesiastical.

LAXUS, llag, G. lasach, slack; also W. llesg, weak, faint; cf. lag, flag, slack, slug, flaccidus, langueo, loose, slow.

LENIS, LINEA, llin, a line, flax; llinar, smooth. (Yet I suspect that lin is only a Welsh utterance of λivos, and that the word was imported with the thing.) Then we shall refer Lenis to the same root as Laetus?

gentle, [Eng. Smooth.] G. maoth.

MINUO, main, slender; G. Mion, little.

MODUS, G. modh.
MOLO, malw, G. meil.
MORES, moes.

MORIOR, marw; G. mort, kill.
MORA, mor, time.
Mucus, G. smug.
MUTUS, mud.

MUTO, mudo, remove; G.muth, change.

NON, NEC, na, nag, nage, nad, nid, nis.

LICET, G. leig, let go, let slip, NE, nas.

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NECTO, G. naisg.

NEGO, nacca, nagu.
NEMO, neb, nebun.

NEBULA, nifwl, G. neul, vɛpéλŋ.
NŏTA, nod; nodi, to mark, &c.
NUDUS, noeth, G. nochd.
PANNUS, pann, fulling of cloth;
pannu, to full; pannog, hav-
ing a nap, &c.
PAR, par, a brace.
PARS, PARIES, parth, G. pairt,
a part; parthu, to divide.
(See Ffwr.) paréd, a house-
wall; parwyd, a partition,
&c.

PARIO, PARO, (cf. Creo.) Para, continuance, duration; parau, to last, abide; par, ready, prepared, effective; pariad, paraeth, a causing; parol, effective, creative; paraethu, to render causative; para

only in Celtic, Latin, and perhaps in Oscan, where they read perum dolum mallom, as per dolum malum.

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PUNGO, pwnga, a blister, a push, (punch?) PURUS, pur. PURGO, puro, &c. QUIES, G. cuid. RAPIO, rhaib, ravening; G. reub, to tear; Eng. rob. RAUCUS, G. ròc: whence ròcas, rook.

REGO, G. ruig, reach.

RIGEO, G. rag, be stiff; righinn, tough.

&c. rhidio, to leap, mount; rheidyr, a knight; rhod, a wheel; rheda, (old Gaulish) a car, or coach. Cf. péw, ῥέω, run, ride, Germ. Ritter. RUGA, G. rug.

SALTO, G. saltair, to trample. SALUS, SALVO, sal, safe; salaidd, hale.

SCRIBO, Gaelic,sgriob, to scrape, a scratch; sgrioban, a rake; sgriobach, the itch; sgriobh, to write, &c. Here we see the primitive sense, which the Latin has not. Yet the word must be ante-Sabine in that language. SCRUTOR, G. sgrud. SECURUS, segur, at leisure, slothful; segura, to be idle, &c. But this is a very difficult word. For there is not only W. sicer, G. sicir, sure, but also G. socair, docair,= εὔωρος, δύσωρος, easy and hard.

SEVERUS, SOBRIUS, syfru, to

harden, make severe; syfrol, firm; sobr, temperate; syfniad, making firm; syfrdan, dull in mind. SICCUS,SITIS,Sych, dry; syched, thirst; sychu, to grow dry; sychedu, to thirst.

RODO, rhutio, to corrode, rub STULTUS, STOLIDUS, Gael. stòl,

away.

ROTA, rhe, swift motion, a run : swift; rheu, to run; rhead, a running; rhean, that which runs, a streamlet; rhedeg, to run, to flow; rhedfa, a race,

a stool, seat; stòl, to settle; stòlta, stòlda, steady, sedate, oτadepós, tame, slow; stòladh, a settling or calming down.

SUCCUS, Sugo, sug. G. sugh,

λos, other. Usus, G. uis. VAE, gwae, woe.

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juice; sugiad, a becoming | ULTRA, alltra, from all juicy; suger, extracted juice, sugar; sugno, to suck. SUMMA, a sum. (Not from supremus, for there is) sym, a complete whole; symaeth, a middle state; symerth, fullness of energy; symis, to apprehend, pierce; syml, simple, pointed; symlu, to prick; symmol, integral, middling; symu, to render integral; swm, the state of being together; 'summ, a sum; G. suim; sumio, to sum up; sumiol, relating to size; sumiad, a deducing the size. Cf. Sansk. sam, Gr. apa, Lat. simul, simplex, &c. SUPERBUS, syberw, proud, mu

VASTUS, G. fàs, empty; fàsach, desolate, &c.

nificent.

ἅμα,

VANUS, gwann, G. fann, favin,
Eng. faint. Also W. gwynn,
white.
VANUS, G. faoin.
VATES, G. faidh, baidh.
VELUM, G. falach, a veil.
VER, čap, see Viridis.
VERUS, gwir, G. fior; and
Germ. wahr.

VIDUA, gweddwi, single, soli-
tary; (but the root is an-
cient, and far spread.)
VILIS, gwael, low, (physically

or morally.)
VIR, gwr, G. fear.

TACEO, taw, silence, &c. cf. VIRTUS, G. feart.

French il s'est tu.

TENER, tyner.

TENUIS, tenau, tavaós.

TIMEO, G. tiom, tender, timid, &c.

TORREO, G. tior, dry. Cf.

Germ. Trock.

TRANS, tra, above, beyond.
TUMEO, TUMULUS, TUMULTUS.

It may be well to compare
the Gaelic. Tom, a knoll,
a swelling. Toman, a hillock.
Tomach, hillocky,tufty. To-
mad, bulk, quantity. Tomult,
bulk, amplitude, authority.
The sense of the last has de-
viated in the two languages.

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VIRAGO, gwraig, woman, gwrferch, virago.

VIRIDIS, VIRGO, VER, ir, green,
fresh, juicy; iraid, irain, do.
xλwpós. Also luxuriant, po-
lished, napós; irder, green-
ness; irhan, to grow moist,
&c.; gwyra, fresh; gwerch,
Armoric, but in G. uraich,
new, fresh, a virgin. The
Welsh has two roots, Ir and
Gwyr; in Gaelic Ur, fresh ;
whence very many deriva-
tives.

VITA, Botós. W. byd, G. beatha.
W. byddu, to exist.
Vox, G. foc.

But (it may be said) " of the words produced as Celtic, there is evidently here a portion which is common to many languages.

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