Re: CHAT: Brithenig-heads
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 19:05 |
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At 14:15 12.4.2000 -0400, 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?
So what does _regulus_ (attested!) become?
And what doth Melroch become if run thru brith2latin? (Nothing close to
Melarocco, I'm sure! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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