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WELSH. IRISH. 
Prenu. To buy, purchase. Cren, or Crean. 
Paup. Any, every one. Cach. 
Pask. Pascha, aster. Casq. 
Pair. A cauldron. Coire. 
Pry. A worm. Crumh. 
Prydd. Clay. Criath. 
And so also Pentecost, or Whitsuntide, is in the Irish 
dialect, Cincis, (in Cornish, pencos), where it will be observed 
that the initial p is made c, whilst the c of the syllable cost 
remains. It is remarkable that the tendency to change the 
p sound into & or hard ¢ exists also in the Ionic dialect of 
Greek; thus 7c is Tonice kic; rococ, Lon. koaoc. 
It is true that we find the name of Patrick written with a 
P in very ancient Irish authorities. But this does not 
in any way contradict the conjecture now thrown out that his 
Dalaradian masters may have corrupted P into C. The fact 
that p and ¢ are interchanged in the Welsh and Irish dialects 
of the Celtic, is undeniable. The fact that Patrick was called 
Cotrick by Miluic is recorded by the highest historical autho- 
rity. Therefore it seems very easy and natural to infer that 
this change is only another example of an undoubted law of 
the language. The same people who changed the foreign 
word Pasch into Cask or Casg, may, without difficulty, be 
supposed to have changed the foreign word Patrick, into Ca- 
trick or Cotrick. The fact that p is sometimes a corruption of 
c, or, in other words, that the c or & sound is frequently in the 
original or primitive form of a word, and p, in the derived or 
corrupted form, is nothing to the purpose,—because there are 
other and as numerous instances in which the p is primitive. 
Thus, the Irish cuig, five, and ceathair, four, compared with 
the Latin, quinque, quatuor, seem more primitive than the 
Welsh pymp, petuar: and the Greek révzs is, also, most pro- 
bably, a less primitive form than quinque, as réscapec is less 
primitive than guatuor. But, on the other hand, the Irish 
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