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340 Gaelic Society of Inuerness. ON ETYMOLOGICAL LINKS BETWEEN WELSH AND GAELIC. On being requested to write a paper on some Celtic subject, to be read before the Gaelic Society of Inverness, my first impulse was to plead my utter incompetency to undertake such a work ; and, in now endeavouring to comply with that request, I must at once state that I do so with the greatest dittidence. So far from aspiring to be, in any sense, an authority on Celtic matters, I am mei'ely a humble student of the Gaelic language ; and that only so far as concerns my pastoral work, and the services of the Church. Hence I venture to beg for myself a large share of indulgence from those who may either hear or read this paper. In what I shall say, I am fully aware that I shall be merely, as it were, touching the fringe of a very wide subject ; and my object is rather to start some discussion on a matter which is most interesting and instructive (in my opinion), and on which I myself want to learn very much more, than to lay down my opinions with a confidence (not to say impertinence) which would be, in my case, unseemly in the extreme. No doubt t<strong>here</strong> must be etymological links of connection between all Celtic languages, since they all spring from a common source ; the connection between the Irish and the Scottish Gaelic is, of course, so very close as to constitute them practically one and the same language—each being merely a ditferent dialect of that language ; the difference being no greater than, even if as great as, that which exists between the various provincial dialects of English, in counties so widely apart as (for instance) Yorkshire and Somersetshire, or Cumberland and Hampshire. I know nothing of the Manx language ; but from the fact of places in the Isle of Man having distinctly Gaelic names (as I have been informed), I should gather that it is very closely akin to either the Irish or the Scottish forms of the Celtic tongue. The connection between our own Gaelic and the Welsh is not, at first sight (to ordinary i)eople at least), so very plain and obvious. In some nu.'asure, no doubt, this arises from the spelling ; which, on both sides, tends to obscure the derivation of words. I imagine; that to an ordinary student of Gaelic, the extraordinary combinations of letters in many words of the Welsh language must utterly mystify him, when he attempts to pronounce them intelligibly; and probably Gaelic would present the same difficulty to a Welshman —as it certainly docs, possibly in a much greater degree, to a
Etymological Links between Welsh and Gaelic. 311 Lowlamlor or an Englisliniau. I suppose one of the most iini\crsal words in Celtic langua-ges is the word " Eaglais" ; we find it in the Welsh " Eglwys," in the Cornish " Eglos," in the Freneli " Eglise," in tlie Latin ' Ecclesia," which is itself, of course, bimply the Greek " eKKX-rjaia." Dut to confine myself to the Welsh. T propose to give a few parallels between it and the Gaelic, which T have come across casually, in the
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