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#SnaST 81/3
...lies in them being "slimy" creatures in the water. None of the formally possible common preforms is amenable to an easy Indo-European explanation. This suggests that the word is perhaps a borrowing from a lost, prehistoric substrate language in Western Europe.
#SnaST 81/2
...similarity between the mechanical reconstructions of the Old Irish and the Latin words, neither of which has a satisfactory etymology otherwise. Periwinkles and leeches are very different animals and inhabit different habitats, but their conceptual similarity...
#SnaST 81/1
giritán [ˈgʲirədaːn] (o, m) "periwinkle, sea-snail" https://t.co/UIg5kGFqtz
Cogn: ModIr. gioradán; Lat. hirūdō "leech" (?).
Reco: PC *girū̆ddo- < pre-Clt. *gʰ/g̑ʰiruHdo- or *gʰ/g̑ʰiruzdo- or *γirūddo-.
This is a speculative etymology based on the great formal...
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 81/1
giritán [ˈgʲirədaːn] (o, m) "periwinkle, sea-snail" https://t.co/UIg5kGFqtz
Cogn: ModIr. gioradán; Lat. hirūdō "leech" (?).
Reco: PC *girū̆ddo- < pre-Clt. *gʰ/g̑ʰiruHdo- or *gʰ/g̑ʰiruzdo- or *γirūddo-.
This is a speculative etymology based on the great formal... https://t.co/YwDPVgkUgD](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_P7UMPWEAEPNNi.jpg)
#SnaST 80/2
...Latv. krùts “hill, breast”.
Reco: PC *kruttā-, *krutto- “bulging object, belly (?)” << pre-Clt. *kruh₂to-
The comparison with the Baltic words suggests the originally unspecific meaning of “bulging object”. The word could be built on the PIE root *kreh₂-...
#SnaST 80/1
crott [ˈkrot] (ā, f) "harp, lyre; hunch, hump" https://t.co/8rocXJ4RJp
Cogn: MW croth “womb, uterus, belly”, crwth “fiddle, violin; hump, hunch; anything of bulging shape”, B krouzh “vulva”, C crothak “abdomen, uterus”, MLat. crotta “harp”; Lith. krūtìs “breast”,...
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crott [ˈkrot] (ā, f) "harp, lyre; hunch, hump" https://t.co/8rocXJ4RJp
Cogn: MW croth “womb, uterus, belly”, crwth “fiddle, violin; hump, hunch; anything of bulging shape”, B krouzh “vulva”, C crothak “abdomen, uterus”, MLat. crotta “harp”; Lith. krūtìs “breast”,... https://t.co/IOcYPaKEa8](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkiPfCyXEAAA8LW.jpg)
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 79
géscae [ˈgʲeːske] (i̯o, m) "(sub)branch" https://t.co/0RRTu2EdWr
Deriv: géc "branch" (#SnaST 78) + suffix -scae
Reco: < pre-Ir. *gēgg-sk-ii̯o-, as if < PC *kank-sk-ii̯o-
Clearly derived from géc "branch", *-sk- seems to have deminutive force here. https://t.co/dcgEMGKYul](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWwztAXsAAUhMr.jpg)
#SnaST 78/4
The initial g- of OIr. géc instead of excepted c- is either due to a dissimilation in pre-Goidelic, viz. *kankū- > *gankū-, or to an assimilation at the Proto-Goidelic stage when *nk had regularly changed to *gg, viz. Proto-Goid. *kēggū- > *gēggū-.
#SnaST 78/1
géc [ˈgʲeːg] (ā, f) "branch, bough" https://t.co/aAeh0RC4ur
Cogn: G caneco-?, MW keing, ceinc, W cainc, caing "branch", B kenkiz "trellis, wickerwork"; Ved. śaṅkú- "plug, peg"; Ved. śā́khā- "branch, twig", Pers. šāx "twig", Arm. cʿax "branch", cʿakʿ "thorny plant,...
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 78/1
géc [ˈgʲeːg] (ā, f) "branch, bough" https://t.co/aAeh0RC4ur
Cogn: G caneco-?, MW keing, ceinc, W cainc, caing "branch", B kenkiz "trellis, wickerwork"; Ved. śaṅkú- "plug, peg"; Ved. śā́khā- "branch, twig", Pers. šāx "twig", Arm. cʿax "branch", cʿakʿ "thorny plant,... https://t.co/GU77GwiUxs](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEQA64cXYAA99g0.jpg)
#SnaST 76/2
The initial p- is a clear indicator that it is a loanword, maybe from a pre-Celtic substrate language.
#SnaST 76
parn [ˈparn] "whale, sea-monster" https://t.co/OLjhh9HNy0
Cogn: none
Etym: unknown
Explained in Sanas Cormaic by bloach, equally obscure.
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 76
parn [ˈparn] "whale, sea-monster" https://t.co/OLjhh9HNy0
Cogn: none
Etym: unknown
Explained in Sanas Cormaic by bloach, equally obscure. https://t.co/PME11ZXF6Y](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEC19AIXUAEJyBC.jpg)
#SnaST 75/3
...prehistoric substrate language into the various North-West European languages.
Intervocalic d after a short a is phonotactically very rare in Irish and is an indicator of an external origin.
#SnaST 75/2
...W from OIr.), but can't be proven. A link with Lith. skàsti, skantù "to leap" < PIE root *skeHt- (?) "to spring out" is phonologically unlikely. Maybe related with Ir. scata "host, drove, flock".
Peter Schrijver thinks of a common loan from an unknown...
#SnaST 75/1
scatán [ˈskadaːn] "herring" https://t.co/COTaDRTcS4
Cogn: W ysgadan, sgadan "herrings", OE sceadd "shad", ON skaddr, Norw. dial. skadd "small whitefish"
Etym: unknown
Loans between the various languages have been suggested (OIr. from OE, OIr. from ON, OE from OIr...
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 75/1
scatán [ˈskadaːn] "herring" https://t.co/COTaDRTcS4
Cogn: W ysgadan, sgadan "herrings", OE sceadd "shad", ON skaddr, Norw. dial. skadd "small whitefish"
Etym: unknown
Loans between the various languages have been suggested (OIr. from OE, OIr. from ON, OE from OIr... https://t.co/wSQFGOrRW1](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECpolwwX4AAkAzr.jpg)
#SnaST 74/2
...represented by OIr. c [g], not by g [ɣ]. This points to a learned borrowing and finds a parallel in fetarlaic "Old Testament" < Lat. (in) uetere lege "(in the) old law", and astrolaic "astrology" < Lat. astrologia.
#SnaST 74/1
martarlaic [ˈmartərləgʲ] (i, m) "martyrology, calendar; shrine" https://t.co/H0b01pcyaX
Etym: loan from MLat. martyrologium "catalogue of martyrs", a learned compound of Gr. μάρτυρ "witness" + -λόγιον "referring to knowledge"
The g of the Latin is unexpectedly...
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 74/1
martarlaic [ˈmartərləgʲ] (i, m) "martyrology, calendar; shrine" https://t.co/H0b01pcyaX
Etym: loan from MLat. martyrologium "catalogue of martyrs", a learned compound of Gr. μάρτυρ "witness" + -λόγιον "referring to knowledge"
The g of the Latin is unexpectedly... https://t.co/z66ds237tF](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5tJlbkWsAUfRH6.jpg)
#SnaST 73/3
...spellings with mb support unlenited [m], which speaks for a learned adoption of the word. Possibly influenced by OIr. membar "limb, member", a loan from Lat. membrum.
#SnaST 73/2
..namely OIr. mebuir, W myfyr, OB memor, MB euor, NB eñvor "memory, thought", this seems to be a bookish borrowing. Neither gender and stem-class are clear, nor the quality of the middle m. A rhyme in Félire Óengusso Prol. 224 suggests lenited m, but several...
#SnaST 73/1
memrae, memmrae [ˈmʲeṽre (?) ˈmʲemre] (i̯o, m/n or i̯ā, f) "monument over the dead, tomb; shrine" https://t.co/JlrvJED1fF
Etym: loan from Lat. memoria "memory, remembrance" or from (unattested?) VLat. *memorium "tomb"
Unlike the regular loan from Lat. memoria,...
![ChronHib's tweet photo. #SnaST 73/1
memrae, memmrae [ˈmʲeṽre (?) ˈmʲemre] (i̯o, m/n or i̯ā, f) "monument over the dead, tomb; shrine" https://t.co/JlrvJED1fF
Etym: loan from Lat. memoria "memory, remembrance" or from (unattested?) VLat. *memorium "tomb"
Unlike the regular loan from Lat. memoria,... https://t.co/JX4axHc7Wa](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5ogQ9DW0AILiap.jpg)
#SnaST 72/3
OW minn, pl. minnou must be a loan from OIr.
#SnaST 72/2
Reco: PC *mandu- "mark" < PIE collocation *mn̥-d- or *mn̥-dʰh₁- "to set one's mind" from PIE roots *men- "to think" and *dʰeh₁- "to put"
The original meaning must have been "mark", i.e. "something to attach one's mind to". Many semantic shifts from there in OIr.
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