encyclopedia article again... (fwd)

[Andrew Carnie]

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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:24:23 -0700
From: Dennis King <donncha1 at home.com>
To: Nicholas Kibre <nick at STL.Research.Panasonic.COM>, celtling at mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Re: encyclopedia article again... (fwd)

> My editor has asked me to come up with a short list of words borrowed
> into Welsh. Now I can come up with plenty from English and Latin, and
> with a little work a few from Norman French, but I've also heard that
> there are a few words from Irish in Welsh, and wonder if anyone knows any
> examples offhand.

cnwc < cnocc (OI), cnoc (mod.) = hill

cerbyd < carpat (OI), carbad (mod.) = chariot

talcen (forehead) < ? talcend (OI) = adze-head; cleric, priest,
with a tie-in to the Irish tonsure?

cadach (rag) < ? cadach (cotton)

Dennis King