Revue celtique - National Library of Scotland

32 On the Celtic Comparisons
h-aiscidh carad ar charaid^ and in LU. 41a (Rev. Celt. II. 88) :
tucad disi ind ascidsin {'that request was granted to her'). Cognate
with this is toise 'voluntas' [=:'dolv)ansd] and both belong to
the Skr. vânchâ, OHG. wunsc, Eng. wisli :
beasach 'l'adjectif beasach signifie éclat,' I. 267 ', where it is con-
nected with Skr. bhâs 'briller.' There is no such word. Bésach
(now written beasach or beusach] is a derivative from bés 'mos,'
and means 'moral,' ^modest,' 'well-behaved.' It can hâve nothing
to do with bhâs. The Ir. bâtt 'fire,' Corm. Tr. 52, may corne
from this root :
galleamhain 'offense.' I know of no such word except in O'Reilly :
gnia, gnic 'connaissance/ g«o 'ingénieux/I. 259.
I doubt if there is
any such word as gnia 'connaissance.' O'Reilly doubtless cites
it from O'Clery^ who bas gnia aithne. cia dognia .i. cia doaithéonîa,
whence it would seem to be a verbal form. As to gnic I know it
only from O'Reilly and Lhuyd. As to gno (leg. gnâ) it means
'remarquable,' not 'ingénieux' :
logha 'brillant,' I. $8. This is from O'Reilly, but I know of no
such word. Perhaps loche 'lightning' (gen. lôchet] gave rise to
this forgery :
ollamhain 'instruction.' This is from O'Reilly. I hâve never met it;
except as the dat. or ace. sg. ornom. pl.ofthe/2-stemo//tJf«/i 'chief-
poet' :
ruarf/i 'force,' ^valeur,' et comme adjectif 'fort,' 'vaillant,' IV. 291/2.,
where it is connected with Skr. ruh ''grandir' for rudh. This may
be right as to the adjective ruadh, which O'Clery explains hytrén
no làidir. But (though it occurs in O'Reilly) I know of no such
substantive as ruadh 'force,' ''valeur' :
rad 'wood.' From O'Reilly, who gives a gloss, *.i. coill no fidh,'
found nowhere else, so far as I know :
ruigheanas 'éclat,' connected by Bopp with Skr. râj. This also is
unbelegt, and is almost certainly a forgery or a blunder. (Can it
be = ro- gênas 'great chastity'
There remain fifty-three, of which the following twenty-four are (I
venture to think) wrongly compared —
:
.'') :
Ir. am 'time,' W. amser, Dr. amzer, Vergl. Gr. i. 492
: I cannot
fmd it in the French version, II. 77, 80, to which the index refers
I. Hère as elsewhere, I cite from M. Bréal's translation.