Re: Cultural Genocide being waged against the Celtic peoples

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:51:09 GMT, Iain MacGiolla-odhar
<ian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have a read. This explains a lot:

"Cornwall Not England - Conspiracy of the Celtic Cornish cover up"

http://www.netpz.co.uk/kernow/cetic_cover_up.htm

I kust say I was impressed by the name of St Michael's Mount:
"Carrek Los yn Cos - grey rock in the wood",

The relationship to Scots and Irish Gaelic can be seem

Carrek = Craig
Los = liath
yn = ann
cos = coille

All Celtic languages are (some think only partly) Indo-European, but
notwithstanding, they are also very conservative, as witness this line
of Breton which I'm bored with, but which does illustrate the point.
It should be remembered that the Bretons originally lived in southwest
England until Anglo-Saxon pressure on their territory caused them to
move to France. It is also a linguistic fact that Breton and Cornish
are closest to each other (80%), with Welsh somewhat less close (60%).

Here is the Breton phrase.

Brav a zo an amzer. And in Scots Gaelic:
Briagh is i an aimsir.
Both mean - the weather is beautiful.

The next question is, why? Why for exanmple do so many Welsh words
have Gaelic counterparts? The only possible answer is that they were
once a single group, which split up at some point in prehistory.

Another interesting idea is that the Celtic languages are the most
remote from the original Indo-Euopean source.

Yet another is that Arabic/Hebrew usages are present in Gaelic at
least. (This was to some degree what prompted the Victorian idea tat
the Celts were the lost tribe of Israel; an idea now refuted, but the
fact that the Celts did live on the plans of Anatolia, Turkey,
specifically in the modern province of Galata, to whose inhabitants
St. Paul wrote his Letters to the Galatians, all give one food for
thought.

The bottom line is, Who are we? Where did we come from? We know that
the Gaulish language of France was so familiar to the Romans that
Julius Caesar (I believe it was him) used it as a code for sending
messages to his commanders. Yet apart from some obvious borrowings
from Latin and Greek, for example, Gaelic creidse/Latin credo (belief)
and Latin opus/opera; Gaelic obair; as well as Gaelic eaglais (curch)
amd Greek Ekklesia (no, it's not from modern French, église, but the
name Gleneagles does mean Valley of the Church and not of the eagles.)

Animals names tend to be older and there Gaelic looks very
Indo-Euopean. Cu, a dog, coin, dogs. Greek Kuon, a dog, cynon, dogs.
Bo, Latin Bos, bovis) a cow. Tarbh (say Taruv) a bull, like toro in
Spanish. Interestingly, the Sanskrit word for a cow is gau, a word
echoed in Cantonese Chinese and Thai, ngow, but in Mandarin, niù. It
should be noted that Cantonese is considered the closest to the
original Han Chinese language, but the message is very likely that the
cow was a universal animal from the dawn of man and one might suggest
that the southern Cantonese introduced the cow to the northern
Chinese.

Both use the word Mah for horse, suggesting that the Mongols
introduced them to China; Mongol peoples certainly ruled China
throughout much of its history.

Horse in Gaelic is each, (ech, ch as in loch) close to Latin Equus but
neither sound like the Greek ippos (hippopotamus means river horse.
Potable as in clean drinking water is the river part of hippopotamus.)

Sanskrit is the oldest known language still spoken, as it is the
language of the Hindu religion. We even know how the woprds are
pronounced, because Hindusim decrees that mispronounced prayers lose
their effectiveness.

Thus, danta, the Sanskrit word for tooth rings instant bells. Zahn in
German, Dent in French, Fiacail in Gaelic, Dentus in Latin, Odonto in
Greek, Zubi in Russian, Nga in Cantonese, Yá in Madarin - there seems
to be a lor of variation. Does this suggest that teeth were a recent
invention?

Has anyone ever noticed that the study of a subject gets a Greek
version of its name - odontology (Greek) the study of teeth; while the
practice of the subject gets a Latin version - Dentistry, (Latin).
Ophthalmology (study of eyes) optician, a man who fits them to your
face.

Just words, but also fascinating clues to where men came from and went
and what they did.

The Highlander
Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,
togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus
toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!
.

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