Welfo Etymologies 
Seventhly, laying no ftrefs upon the 
Jaft mentioned inference, we have ample 
proofs to fhew, that the Welth tongue 
is mow what it was on the ¢oming of the 
Romans into Britain. 
Laftly, it can be proved that the mals 
of names before-mentioned as zzexplicable 
in other languages are real words in the 
Welfh ; confequently there refults a two- 
fold inference: firit, that zt bas been pre- 
ferved without any change from the moft 
remote antiquity; and next, that the 
language of the firft inhabitants of Europe 
is identified therein, 
Examples of etymology : the names of 
volcanic mountains explained. 
. SICILY. 
The title of king of the Two Szcilies, 
belonging to the crown of Naples, is of 
itfelf a iufficient evidence to thew that 
the name muft have an allufion to fome- 
thing common to the ifland properly fo 
cajled, and allo to the country about 
Naples; and nothing’can be more re- 
markably fo than the two celebrated vol- 
canoes of Etua and Vefuvius. The word 
Sicily, by preferving the primitive found 
of Cas K, is very nearly the Welth Ceg- 
ulw, which is pronounced as if it were 
written Kekeeloo in the Englifn orthogra- 
phy; and the fignification of it js, the 
mouth of burning cinders; being derived 
from Cég, a mouth, and Ulxv, burning 
cinders, hot afhes, orembers. The ini- 
tial of Cegulw hes three mutations, 
which, for want of appropriate characters, 
I muft thus exemplity: Bar ¢ Gegulew, 
the peak of the combuitible mouth ; Bar 
a Chegukw, a peak wih a combuitible 
mouth ; Ju-Negbeguiw, in a combuitible 
mouth: and thefe mutations account for 
writing Sicily, inflead of Crez’y, or Kikily, 
which ought to be the word in its abfolute 
form. Hence the appeilation of the favo 
Sicilies implies the tava burning craters. 
MOUNT ETNA. 
In this name may he recognized the 
Welth words, ETANA, the aecumulation 
of fire, which may be thus further ex- 
plained: E, the; TANA, 70 accumulate 
fire, and allo fre collected together ; and 
the root of TANa is TaN, which prima- 
rily means expanfion, and fre in a ie- 
condary fenfe. So MoNT E LANA, 
Monr.e Tan, and Monr £ TAanio, 
are literally the mount of the accugnulating 
fire, the mount of fire, and the mount. of 
the fring ; or, the burning mountain. 
MOUNT VESUVIUS, 
‘This name means the mountain of the 
cambu/lible mauth, if it is to be identified 
- in Monr vus-Hyvyg, which words are 
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Word Fehovah. 
pronounced almoft exaétly like it ; and is 
thus explained: Vus-hyvys, if it were not 
governed in conftruction by the word 
Mont, would be Bus-hyvys in its abfolute 
form, from Bus, a mouth or aperture, 
and Hyvys, from Fiyv, apt or capable, 
and Ys, a confuming or burning. 
STROMBALI. 
The Welfh words STRUM BALI, which 
are exactly of the fame found as-this ~ 
name, imply the ridge of eruption, or the dif- 
gorging riage; and they are thus explained; 
Yjtrum, a ridge, from the prefix ys and 
trum, is, by the common elifion of the 7, ° 
written "Strum; and Bal, a difgorging, 
is a colle€tive noun, from Balu, to throw 
out, tocject, or toerupt. : 
Having, asI conceive, fo fuccefsfully 
found the before-mentioned names ex- 
plained in the Welfh language, I am 
tempted to rob Vulcan of part of his ho- 
‘ours, by deriving the term velcano from 
the fame fource. In fo doing, it is ne- 
ceflary firft, to obferve that the initial 
V is not a radical letter; and that its 
found in the Welth is the fecondary 
power, or mutation of M and of B. -f 
therefore fix upon Bal-cynmau, or the 
burning peak, ov burning mountain, as the 
original, from whence Volcano is derived : . 
and under various forms of conftructions 
it is very like in found ; as B VAL-CYN- 
NAU, the durniag peak; and to give the 
found of Val-cyzzanu, accordmg to the 
Englith orthography, it muft be written 
Ve'connc, which differs but very little 
from Volcane. BAt-C¥NNAU is formed 
from Bal, a term for a conical hill, or 
peak, and efpecially fuch as is thrown up3 
and Cynmaz, to. kindle, or to take fire ; 
and alfo a firing, or kindling. 
Tam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Feb, 6; 1799. MEIRION, 
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To the Editor of tbe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
EY no means intended to affert that 
the Englifh tranflation of the bible 
thould be confidered as the ftandard for 
biblical criticifm; but what I advanced 
In my reply to M. R. was merely that 
it was rendered perfeétly confiftent with _ 
itfelf 5 and this confiftency is ftill main- 
tained in all the paffages which your cor- 
refpondent M. R. quotes (p. 247 of your 
magazine for Oétober laft) to prove his 
former pofition ; and I will now proceed 
to offer a few reafons why the word JEHO- 
V AH is rendered Lord in thofe, paffages. 
Aithough in the original Hebrew the 
word JEHOVAH is every where made ule 
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