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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Here we seem to be on the track of a very ancient Aryan practice, although the Celtic season does not quite coincide with the Greek one (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "Here we seem to be on the track of a very ancient Aryan practice, although the Celtic season does not quite coincide with the Greek one."

• attribution: on racial antipathy, long ago forgotten; for it might perhaps be regarded as going back to a time when the dark haired race reckoned the Aryan of fair complexion as his natural enemy, the very sight o (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "on racial antipathy, long ago forgotten; for it might perhaps be regarded as going back to a time when the dark haired race reckoned the Aryan of fair complexion as his natural enemy, the very sight of whom brought with it thoughts calculated to make him unhappy and despondent."

• attestation: To explain myself I should put it that the non-Aryan aborigines were a small people of great agility and nimbleness, and that their Aryan conquerors moved more slowly and deliberately, whence the form (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "To explain myself I should put it that the non-Aryan aborigines were a small people of great agility and nimbleness, and that their Aryan conquerors moved more slowly and deliberately, whence the former, of springier movements, might come to nickname the latter the flat footed."

• attestation: As regards the Aryan nations, we seem to have a clue to an answer in the interesting group of Aryan words in point, from which I select the following: — Irish ainm, 'a name,' plural anmann; Old Welsh (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "As regards the Aryan nations, we seem to have a clue to an answer in the interesting group of Aryan words in point, from which I select the following: — Irish ainm, 'a name,' plural anmann; Old Welsh anu, now enw, also ' a name '; Old Bulgarian mie" (for *ienmen, *anman]; Old Prussian emnes, emtiietis, accusative emnan; and Armenian anwan (for a stem *ajiman)—z\ meaning a name."

• attestation: In fact, I have every reason to be satisfied with the wide extent of the Aryan world covered by the other instances enumerated as Celtic, Prussian, Bulgarian, and Armenian (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "In fact, I have every reason to be satisfied with the wide extent of the Aryan world covered by the other instances enumerated as Celtic, Prussian, Bulgarian, and Armenian."

• attestation: That would be pressing the point too far; but the direct teaching of the Celtic vocables is that they are all to be referred to the same origin in the Aryan word for ' breath or breathing,' which is r (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "That would be pressing the point too far; but the direct teaching of the Celtic vocables is that they are all to be referred to the same origin in the Aryan word for ' breath or breathing,' which is represented by such words as Latin anima^ Welsh anadl^ ' breath,' and a Gothic anan^ ' blow or breathe,' whence the compound preterite uzH>n^ twice used by Ulfilas in the fifteenth chapter of St."

• attestation: but the direct teaching of the Celtic vocables is that they are all to be referred to the same origin in the Aryan word for ' breath or breathing,' wh (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "but the direct teaching of the Celtic vocables is that they are all to be referred to the same origin in the Aryan word for ' breath or breathing,' which is represented by such words as Latin anima^ Welsh anadl^ ' breath,' and a Gothic anan^ ' blow or breathe,' whence the compound preterite uzH>n^ twice used by Ulfilas in the fifteenth chapter of St. Mark's Gospel to render iiiirvtwrf"

• comparison: In the next place, his method of selecting names from incidents was palpably incompatible with what is known to have been the Aryan system of nomenclature, by means of compounds, as evinced by the ann (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "In the next place, his method of selecting names from incidents was palpably incompatible with what is known to have been the Aryan system of nomenclature, by means of compounds, as evinced by the annals of most nations of the Aryan family of speech: such compounds, I mean, as Welsh Pen-wyn, 'white-headed,' Gaulish Uti'vo-ovii'Soi, or Greek 'HTrapx^os, 'Apxnnros, and the like."

• attestation: Aryan substratum, and to detect something which was not Celtic, not Aryan ^ (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "On the other hand, in the druid and his method of naming we seem to touch the non-Aryan substratum, and to detect something which was not Celtic, not Aryan ^"

• attestation: Just as the glottologist, fearing lest the written letter may have slurred over or hidden away important peculiarities of ancient speech, resorts for a corrective to the actuality of modem Aryan, so t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Just as the glottologist, fearing lest the written letter may have slurred over or hidden away important peculiarities of ancient speech, resorts for a corrective to the actuality of modem Aryan, so the mythologist, apt to suspect the testimony of the highly respectable bards of the Rig- Veda, may on occasion give ear to the fresh evidence of a savage, however inconsequent it may sound."

• attestation: It is applicable in its method to all languages, but, as a matter of fact, it came into being in the domain of Aryan philology, so that it has been all along principally the science of comparing the A (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "It is applicable in its method to all languages, but, as a matter of fact, it came into being in the domain of Aryan philology, so that it has been all along principally the science of comparing the Aryan languages with one another."

• attestation: In this ogress f>okk, deaf to the appeals of the tenderer feelings, we seem to have the counterpart of our Celtic tocad and tynghed; and the latter's name as a part of the formula in the Welsh story, (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "In this ogress f>okk, deaf to the appeals of the tenderer feelings, we seem to have the counterpart of our Celtic tocad and tynghed; and the latter's name as a part of the formula in the Welsh story, while giving us the key of the myth, shows how the early Aryan knew of nothing"

• attestation: That is the sort of question which besets the student of Celtic mythology at every step; for the Celtic nations of the present day are the mixed descendants of Aryan invaders and the native population (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "That is the sort of question which besets the student of Celtic mythology at every step; for the Celtic nations of the present day are the mixed descendants of Aryan invaders and the native populations which those Aryan invaders found in possession."

• attribution: I do not ask whether that strange picture betrays a touch of the solar brush, but I should be very glad to know whether it can be regarded as an Aryan creation or not (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "I do not ask whether that strange picture betrays a touch of the solar brush, but I should be very glad to know whether it can be regarded as an Aryan creation or not."

• attestation: The question for us, however, is this: was the couvade introduced by the Aryan invaders of Ireland, or are we rather to trace it to an earlier race (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The question for us, however, is this: was the couvade introduced by the Aryan invaders of Ireland, or are we rather to trace it to an earlier race?"

• attestation: It may, of course, have been both Aryan and Iberian, but it will all the same serve as a specimen of the sort of question which one has to try to answer (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "It may, of course, have been both Aryan and Iberian, but it will all the same serve as a specimen of the sort of question which one has to try to answer."

• comparison: The belief in rebirth generally seems to fit as a part of the larger belief in the transmigration of souls which is associated with the teachings of the ancient druids, a class of shamans or medicine- (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The belief in rebirth generally seems to fit as a part of the larger belief in the transmigration of souls which is associated with the teachings of the ancient druids, a class of shamans or medicine-men who were probably, as already hinted, not of Celtic or Aryan origin; and probably the beliefs here in question were those of some non- Aryan people of these islands, rather than of any Aryans who settled in them."

• attestation: In that simple arithmetic of the fairies, then, we seem to have a trace of a non- Aryan race, that is to say, probably of some early inhabitants of these islands (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "In that simple arithmetic of the fairies, then, we seem to have a trace of a non- Aryan race, that is to say, probably of some early inhabitants of these islands."

• comparison: Why, that the first five numerals in that language are bat, bi, int, lau, host, all of which appear to be native; but when we come to the sixth numeral we have sei, which looks like an Aryan word borr (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Why, that the first five numerals in that language are bat, bi, int, lau, host, all of which appear to be native; but when we come to the sixth numeral we have sei, which looks like an Aryan word borrowed from Latin, Gaulish, or some related tongue."