The Etruscans: Were They Celts? Or, the Light of An Inductive Philology Thrown On Forty Etruscan Fossil Words Preserved to Us By Ancient Authors; With Incidental Notices of the Etymology of 2000 Words in the Classical And Modern Languages, And Discussions
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uch, "upper, above," whence uch-af, " supreme, chiefest," uchel, " high, lofty, stately," seems to be an ancient word, for it resembles the H. y£ih-ir, "lofty, proud," and the Ch. yuhSrei, "pride" (cf. the Ochil hills in Perthshire). The root-form darg exists also in G.; for there is the participial noun drugh-adh, " superiority," iu the sense of "protecting," targ-adh, "governing, rule," and targaid, " a target," " that which protects the body " — a Celto-E. word the etymology of which has rat...her puzzled our lexico- ABSTEACT TERMS. 245 graphers, for some derive it from L. tergus, "a hide," on the principle, doubtless, that when the Celts had a simple idea to express, a familiar object to be named, they borrowed a Latin word, for their own language was so poor in elementary words that they had to call in the aid of loan-words from the Latin ! The targe is the primitive weapon for " pro- tecting " the body, just as the sword was originally intended to " wwrd off blows." The other root-forms, tar and tri, also exist in G,, for it has the nouns tearraid, "a police-officer," one who "pro- tects," and triadh, " a lord, a prince, a chieftain, a leader," and the adj.
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