Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland].

  • John Cleland
Date:
1768
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Credit: Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 189 ] fpeaking of the Britons^ are ufed too familiarly by the Greek writers, of fpecifically that body of men, which was undoubtedly of Britijh not of Saxon origin, not to have been, among thofe Britons, the fpecific Britijh dhtin61ion of that part of the country, from w^hich they came, the low lands of Britain or England, As foreigners had given to the ifland in general the name of Britain^ or 'Northern JJlands ; the iilanders theirfelves, being divided into various governments, would naturally diflinguifli themfelves according to the parts of the country in which they were refpe6lively born, in England the plain or level, in Loegr the low Ihires, or in the Ky?nbrosy or Albanns, the mountainous boundaries. Even the Eafc-Angles palpably took their name not from (jcxm2in.-Angles or plainsy but from the Eajiern Ings or plains of this country, as their local lituaiion by the map abundantly demonftrates. IRELAND. This word is a contraflion of Jar landy or rather of Ivarland (the ^ quiefcent as in ciijy being com¬ monly an afpirate in theantient language). Ivary Hiber, or Hivery all lignifying the Wejiern land: lerne and Hibernia derive from HiberAnnisy the Weflern ifland f. Analogoufly to this, the name of the fhire of Axrgyle is contradied from Jargaolly the Weflierii country. * Germany had its Angli-^ue'vU the inhabitants of the dale or plains at the foot of the hills of Weflphalia. Eng is, in Svvedilb> a plain. Ingy the fame in the DaniHi. In Eric, Ing-er is a plain country. f k had other names. Tiwolac or Eiarfolk the Weftern people, and Bajincy or rather PFa>’ney, the lejjer ifland, analo- goufly to Minorca in its relation to Mcjona, • Of this Bannejy there was formed^the name of an imaginary iaint, Bannah. It