…understanding our past(6):

And it’s wonderful how so many of these words add up to the heart of how we talk and think of the Irish and English countryside: a word such as “Wild” for instance (Dutch,  Saxon and Old English ‘wild‘, Old Frisian ‘wilde‘, Old High German ‘wildi‘…) 1) 

which has no accepted etymology before Proto-Germanic, but does have a couple of Insular Celtic cognates, is probably from the Pyramid-Text-era Egyptian ‘w3d‘ (‘fresh, green, raw’) 2)…

…and then there are words such as “tilth” and “tillage” and “till” and “thatch”…

1) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic by Guus Kroonen, p.579

2) A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James P. Allen, vol.1, p.226

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