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> What is the relationship between W. yng 'narrow' and L. angustiae ''the =
> narrows' ?
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> Tom Ikins
> http://www.RomanMap.com
> The Roman Map of Britain
According to Lewis and Pedersen (1937), a standard authority, _angustiae_ is
built on the root which appears in Welsh. In other words, the root of each
word descends in parallel from Indo-European in the separate
language-families, but with different suffixation. It isn't clear to me why
the Welsh word has [y] not [a], but this may have been due to some lost
suffix. The original [a] is seen in the antonym of _yng_: _ehang_ `wide'.
I have argued that _angustiae_ was a place-name found in Roman Britain, and
appears in a Welshified guise in Ingst (Gloucestershire) and Ingestre
(Staffordshire; with David Horovitz and Stephen Potter).
Hope this helps.
Richard Coates
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