Cànan: Sengoídelc | |
Facal: tendaid Gram: v Dearbh: 1 | |
Gluas: press, strain, squeeze, tighten, fasten; (military) press after, harry; urge, encourage, constrain, force (to an action) | Fios: Lat. tendo, or a Celtic formation from *ten-, LEIA T-49 , Ériu xxxvi 181 --DIL | Perhaps Ranko Matasović (EDPC) and Stefan Schumacher (KPV) thought it was a Latin borrowing and omitted it for that reason. However, the difference in meaning could hardly have developed in a few centuries and rather suggests that it is "a Celtic formation", or even more probably in my view, an Italo-Celtic formation with specific semantic developments in Celtic. --RV |