Welsh Journals

^niualo^h €mimim*. FIFTH SERIES.—VOL. VII, NO. XXVIII. OCTOBER 1890. EARLY WELSH (IN RELATION TO OTHER ARYAN) PERSONAL NAMES. BY REV. EDMUND HCCLTJRE, M.A. i. The Principle of Construction of the Personal Name among Aryan Peoples.—It now seems well esta¬ blished that the ancient normal form of personal name among all Aryan peoples, with the exception of the Latin and perhaps the Armenian, was that of a com¬ pound of two elements joined to each other according to the rules of composition. A very wide induction, embracing the earliest forms of names current among Aryan races, has yielded this important generalisation. Thus, to take a widely spread form, containing in one of its elements kruta (root, krw, to hear)=praised, dis¬ tinguished, we have the following : Sanskrit, Qruta- karman, Qruta-deva, Pari-cruta; Zend, Qruto-cradh ; Greek, K\uto-/^&?9 (Sansk. r represented by Greek \), Se6-K\vTo<i (cf. Latin inclutus); Old Welsh, Clotri=Clu- torix ; Old German, Hlud-berht (original Jc=Germ. h); Hlud-wig (now Louis), cf. English loud. And from the same root, krw, the Slavonic Slovo (Sansk. Qravas), found in Slavo-bor (original &=Slavonic s), Slavomir, etc. ii. The Nature of the Elements.—The elements enter¬ ing into the ancient personal name, although not taken 5th beu.. voi,. vri. 17