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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    _ C 2It ] and to fubmit withall to the reader, whether I prefs the rule into the feiwice of imagination, or ap¬ ply it with fair judgment. Thus I conceive that Helvetii^ the prefent Swifs^ received that denomination from Cell or Hill^' 'thence Helvetic inhabitants of the hills. This Cell, in the fenfe of mountain, you have perceivably for the etimon of excelfus, of culmerii of excellensy of colUsy and’ in many other Words,* importing eminence and height. The power of the root is, however, in the aly ely uly or oly the vowel being, in fa<5i:, indifferent. Ohimp is manifeft the hill of the fpirits. • The words, Gauly Celty AlpSy Weljhy 8cc, are all but dialeftical variations of a word, at bottom, con¬ veying the fame principal idea, but more or lefs extenhve, according as it is pregnant with accef^ faries.