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Remarks on the Gaulish dictionary

The comments are placed below and organised by date.

Notes:

According to mr Delamarre, Februar 1998 ^{(?, XD)}:

"...a lot of words are not Gaulish : 'ascia' is pure Latin ; 'birgit' is Irish (the Gaulish form is 'brigantia') ; victory is not 'boud-' but 'boudi-' ..... 'brehon' is Breton ; 'brihent' is Welsh ; 'camox' and not 'camoix', is a Latin word possibly of Celtic origin ; the meaning love for 'cassi-' is an invention (see on that word Helmut Birkhan in Festschrift Pokorny) ; 'cen' is Irish (Gaulish 'penno-' Common Celtic *kwenno-) ; 'Chariovalda' is Old Germanic (Hario- > Heer 'army') ; 'dagda', 'file', 'fo' are Irish' etc. ; 'fata' is Latin ; 'hen' is Breton (Gaulish is 'seno-') etc. ...... You missed important Gaulish words recently discovered on inscriptions:....the verbal forms 'bissiet', 'bietutu', 'buetid', 'toncsiontio' etc."

See also... :

A. Holder : 'Altceltischer Sprachschatz' (fundamental). 1896-1913.
G. Dottin : 'La langue gauloise'. 1920.
K.H. Schmidt : 'Die Komposition in gallischen Personennamen'. 1957.
D. E. Evans : 'Gaulish Personal Names'. 1967.
J. Watmough : 'The Dialects of Ancient Gaul'. 1970.
P.M. Duval (Dir.) : 'Recueil des inscriptions gauloises'. 1985-
R. Marichal : 'Les graffites de La Graufesenque'. 1988.
P.H. Billy : 'Thesaurus Linguae Gallicae'. 1993.
W. Meid : 'Gaulish Inscriptions'. 1994.
P.Y. Lambert : 'La langue gauloise'. 1994.
Meid W. & P. Anreiter (Herausgeb.) : 'Die grösseren altkeltischen Sprachdenkmäler'. 1996.

According to mr. John J. Mascitelli, April 1999 (^JM):
"... Gaulish converted sexta - deca into ordinals by adding the suffix -metos. As for the ordinal number third, it were not given in the source that I read, but I think it was *trios based Irish Gaelic treas. Note: words in Gaelic ending in -as seem to be equivalent to Gaulish words ending in -os. Gaulish apparently had a grammer very much like that of Latin, not like the modern Insular Celtic languages. In fact, it has been suggested to re-define Italic and Celtic languages into Celto-Italic - and the simularity between these two groups are very apparent. The Romans wrote that the Gauls could understand written Latin. Note: though Gaulish was generally an unwritten language, it was at times written in Greek letters before the Roman occupation, and afterward it was written in the Roman alphabet. "

Declensions: Singular Plural Dual Nominative -os -os -o Genitive -i, -os -om Dative -u,-o -obis Accusative -om -ons

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