Re: CHAT: Brithenig-heads
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 19:44 |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 100, John Cowan wrote:
>andrew scripsit:
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>> Andrew amused. Ill Rhuil makes good Brithenig, as Philip pointed out.
>> I have no idea what it would mean.
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>Nothing Latin, it seems: running the sound changes backwards
>produces "re:lus" or "roelus". The only Lewis & Short words in
>"rel-" are definitely the prefix "re-" plus some root in "l".
>Nothing obviously Germanic either. A Celtic word, perhaps?
How about an early borrowing for "an energetic whirling kind of
dance"? I.e., a reel. Ultimately from OE hreolan - would that
work at all?
Padraic.
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