New Anatolian-Celtic Correspondences
Keywords:
Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European, Etymology, Celtic languages, Anatolian languagesAbstract
The article contributes to the most important problem of Indo-European etymology by offering ten correspondences between the Old Anatolian and the Celtic languages: §1. Ḫi. ḫap- ‘reichlich vorhanden sein’ : OIr. an- ‘richness, property’; §2. Ḫi. šinura- ‘mittellos, arm’ : OIr. sēna- ‘nier, désavouer, rejeter’; §3. OIr. meinistir- (f.) ‘coffre contenant les ustensiles du culte’; §4. Ḫi mani- ‘Eiter’ : OIr. mein·bligi- (pr.) ‘il foisonner, il fourmille’; §5. Ḫi. maniti- ‘Wachstum (?)’ : OIr. muine ‘Berg’; §6. CLu. nani- ‘reinigen’ : MIr. cruth·necht ‘roter Weizen’; §7. Ḫi. ninga- ‘Regen’ : OIr. nin- ‘cloud, wave’; §8. Ḫi. KUŠšala- ‘Teil des Zaumzeugs’ : OIr. selan- ‘corde, laisse de chien’; §9. Hi. šant- ‘wertwolles Gegenstand’ : OIr. sét- ‘trésor’, §10. Hi. da- ‘all, ganz, gesamt’ : OIr. dá ‘in full’.