Re: CHAT: Brithenig-heads

Paedryc re-scryfat:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 100, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >andrew scripsit:
> >
> >> Andrew amused.  Ill Rhuil makes good Brithenig, as Philip pointed out.
> >> I have no idea what it would mean.
> >
> >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?
Although I _know_ it comes from Aredos, not Latin, how about a dialect form
of VL reglus from CL re:gulus. How about re:gulus itself, it gives roughly
the same meaning as Corfeg ruil and Aredos regulos.

yl (rather defiant) ruil