240 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAXADIAN INSTITUTE. 



I shall HOW take the Gaelic names of some conspicuous and well 

 known natui'al objects and actions common to the whole Aiyan race, 

 and endeavour to shew, by comparing them with other Aryan forms, 

 how accurately they have been preserved by the Gaelic speaking 

 people. 



Words Relating to Heat and Light. 



• Heat and light having been known to all the families of the Aryan 

 i-ace, it might be expected that its different branches would carry the 

 original names of these elements with them to their new aVjodes. 



In Sanscrit, Gharma (from the Aryan root, <jhar, gar, to sliine, 

 to heat) means warm, hot. In Gaelic, yar means to warm : Gar 

 do lamhan, warm your hands ; ghar e 'lamhan, he warmeel his 

 hands." In Sanscrit, gh7-i, means to shine, to heat ; in Gaelic the 

 word for sun is grian, a yhrian, the sun ; griosach in Gaelic is hot 

 embers ; In Sanscrit, sura is the word for sun, the shiner, as grian is 

 the shiner in Gaelic, sura being from sv}ar, to shine, as sol, the sun, 

 is from the cognate swal, to shine. Now, the Gaelic word for light is 

 solus, evidently c amested with sol, the sun, and suhiI, to .shine. 

 Soillsich is one Gaelic wo;d, meaning to shine, connected Avith swaK 

 to shine; suil an eye, and seall, or seoll, to look, ai-e of the same 

 family. Helios, the Greek for sun, and haul, the Welsh word peem to 

 be connected. Another Gaelic word for shine is dearsadh ; and deal- 

 rndh, which is slightly different in meaning, seems to be the same 

 word, as r and I easily glide into each other, like swar and swal ; sur 

 and sol. The pronunciation of dealradh is peculiar; it is like 

 djealradh : dealanach, lightning, is a word of the same group and is 

 Ijronounc )d in a similar manner ; both being ijrobaV>ly from the root 

 ghar or qhal, to shine. 



There is a remai-kable similarity between the Gaelic soi, a particle 

 used in composition, meaning good or easily done, and the Greek 

 particle eu, which, a learned friend connected with this Institute 

 informs me, was originally seu. The particle in Gaelic expressive of 

 the I'everse of this, is di or do, like the Greek dys. Soi-sguel in 

 Gaelic means good tidings ; soilleir in Gaelic means what can be seen, 

 leir meaning to see ; doleir, dark, what cannot be seen ; saoidh means 

 good, brave men ; daoi, Vjad, wicked men ; perhaps dorclia, dark, may 

 be formed in the same manner from do and a root arg, akin to Aryan 



