554 Rev. Mr Witiams on one Source of the 
Cum.! “hir” (vid. Ow. Dict.), “long.” The Triads have recorded three lines, which 
they attribute to King Arthur, and which some antiquaries may wish to see as 
the only literary composition of that famous monarch :— 
Sev-ynt fy nhri Cad-varchog, 
Mael hir a Llir Lliiydog, 
A choloyn Cymrii Caradog. 
Hi sunt mei tres Pugne equites, 
Mael pro-cérus ac Lear, copiis instructus, 
Atque columna Cambriz Caradog, 
Poutvinar and Potvinus, “a pillow and bolster.” Some of the older scholars ac- 
knowledged pulvinar to be a change of letters from pluvinum, root plume, fea- 
thers; but in Cum. plume are pliiv, whence pluvinar, without any change. In 
Cornish with a different termination, but from the same root, it was Pluvog. 
Again, by a change similar to that in the Latin, the common name in Wales is 
Pilwg, Engl, Pillow. 
Pianta, a Latin word, single in form, but double in meaning. In one sense it comes 
from planum, flat, and means the sole of the foot. In another sense, it means a 
young sucker, which, if detached from the parent tree, and again committed to 
the earth, will itself become a tree. In the first sense it has only one derivative, 
** plantaris,” used by Srarius and VarErtus Fraccus, to describe the feet wings 
of Mercury. The other has a numerous offspring, and has entered deeply into 
the composition of the English language. Now the Cum. ‘ Plant” means * off- 
spring, children” (see Ow. Dict.), root, plan, ‘a scion or shoot,” whence the verb 
planii, ** to plant, to set shoots.” One might imagine that the Cumrian meaning 
was before Virci1’s eyes when he wrote the following line: 
“ Hic plantas tenero abscindens de corpore matrum ;” 
literally, ‘* one separating the children from the tender bosom of their mother.” 
Quxro, and Quxso, I seek. Thus Festus, “ Queso ut significat idem quod rogo, 
ita quesere ponitur ab antiquis pro querere, ut apud Ennium libro secundo: 
‘ nautisque mari quesentibu’ vitam,” &c. 
From this observation, and from the practice of the classical writers, we find 
that quero, in the sense of seeking, had ceased to be used by the Romans 
long before their settlement in,Britain. But the Cum. ceisio, and ceiso (vid. Dict.), 
still means “to seek, to go after, and fetch,” and has its own noun cais, ‘ both 
a petition and an attempt.” Quzso and ceiso are in utterance the same word. 
Quis, Who? Cum. Pwy? This interchange of the p and qu, refers to a period still more 
remote than that in which the r and s were mutually interchanged. We know 
1 It is a constant practice to represent the Latin S, by the Cum. H, and vice versa, e. g.— 
Sérus, hwyr. 
Sag-um, hyg and hygan. 
Sal, Halen. 
Sol, Haul, &c. 
* See H. Llwyd’s Brit. Etym. p. 283. 
