But the whole
thing is in nubibus, and given as a guess only.'
{69} 'The name of Erin,' says Lord Strangford, 'is treated at length
in a masterly note by Whitley Stokes in the 1st series of Max
Muller's lectures (4th ed.) p. 255, where its earliest TANGIBLE form
is shown to have been Iverio. Pictet's connection with Arya is quite
baseless.'
{82} It is to be remembered that the above was written before the
recent war between Prussia and Austria.
{84} The etymology is Monsieur Henri Martin's, but Lord Strangford
says--'Whatever gai may be, it is assuredly not Celtic. Is there any
authority for this word gair, to laugh, or rather "laughter," beyond
O'Reilly? O'Reilly is no authority at all except in so far as tested
and passed by the new school. It is hard to give up gavisus. But
Diez, chief authority in Romanic matters, is content to accept
Muratori's reference to an old High-German gahi, modern jahe, sharp,
quick, sudden, brisk, and so to the sense of lively, animated, high
in spirits.'
{85} Monsieur Henri Martin, whose chapters on the Celts, in his
Histoire de France, are full of information and interest.
{97} The above is really a sentence taken from the Cologne Gazette.
Lord Strangford's comment here is as follows: --'Modern Germanism, in
a general estimate of Germanism, should not be taken, absolutely and
necessarily, as the constant, whereof we are the variant.
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