Re: CHAT: silly names (in Brithenig)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 19, 2001, 0:14 |
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andrew scripsit:
> Why did the [a] in egr undergo i-mutation? I would have thought [agr],
Yes, indeed. There was a bug in lat2bri.
> I await with interest to see what you do with Ceredigion. That will be
> another province discovered. I've never found the origin of that name,
> although I haven't looked hard.
According to the Ceridigion County Council web site, it's derived from the
personal name Ceredig, a former (legendary?) prince of the area.
So I suppose it would remain unchanged except for the -ion which
would be replaced by a Romance analogue such as -IA > -i.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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