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purgadair, purgatory = [from] Lat. purgatormm, whence also Eng.
purpur, purple = [from, per ancient Welsh,] hd.t. pur2nira, whence
Eng. purple.
purr, thrust = [from] Sc. porr^ Dut. porren [Eng. pore. See
Skeat's Dict?\
pus, a cat = [from] Eng. pxiss.
put, push, W. piotio ; Eng. hntt, Fr. houter [D Celtic is borrowed
from Eng. ; cf. M. Eng. initen., throw, put (the stone), allied
to hut, fnitt.^
put, 3"0ung moor-fowl = [from] Sc. pout, Fr. poulet (Eng. p)uilet),
from Lat. j9m//ms, chicken.
putan, a button, from Eng. Imtton.
R
ragair, extortioner, rogue ; cf. Norse hrekkr, trick [D. It seems
from Eng. rogue ; cf. dialectic rogair, deceiver.]
rasdal, a rake, E. Ir. rastal, from Lat. rastellus.
rathad, road ; Eng. road, etc. [D. Gaelic seems borrowed]. Also
rod.
reidh, level, free ; cognate with Eng. ready, ride, etc.
reir, a reir, as ; see riar.
riar, pleasure, from a pre-Celtic prera ; root 2:>ri [Eng. free, etc.]
ro, verbal and intensive prefix ; from /v?'c«, allied to Lat. pro, before.
ros, seed ; cf. Gr. prnson, leek ; as pur to Lat. porrum [D.]
ruchd, belching ; Lat. 7'uctus, Gr. eretigomai, Sc. ruck. Bruchd
seems another form of it [D.]
ruith, rithim, run. Lit. rith, roll, Lat. rota, wheel, etc.
S
sa, emphatic suffix of personal pronoims, as in thu-i<a ; root &va, as
in Lat. .se, .smwa- [Brugmann refers it to root m, as in Gr.
article ho, Eng. slie7\
sabaid, sabbath, from Lat. »ahhatum.
sabh, ointment, is from Lat. Eng. naive, Sc. >^aw, ointment.
sac, a sack, W. sach = [from] Lat. saccus, Eng. sack.
sagart, priest, 0. Ir. sacart, from Lat. ^ecerdos, sacerdotis, the i
arising from d-t of -dotis.
sail, heel, W. sawdl, from sta-tlo, root sta, stand [D. ?]
salann, salt, Lat. sal, Eng. salt.
salm, psalm, is from Lat. psalmus.
saltair, a psalter, from Lat. jisalterncm.
samhradh, summer ; root in sam/mmn, q.v. ; the affix radh means
" state," etc.