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Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the celebrated violin-maker, known by the name of Stradivarius:, 1864
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1cruisigh (music), which is itself derived from the Sanscrit krus' (to cry out, to produce loud sounds), the root of which is kur (to yield a sound).*
3The Gaelic Kymri, who originally peopled Kymbery [? Kymru] or Cambria, now Wales, were a Celtic colony which issued from Gaul; for Gaels, Galli, Gauls and Welsh are identical terms, and refer to one and the same people. The Gaelic [? Celtic] language which they spoke, and which they still speak in the mountain districts, differs but little from the Celtic dialect in use among the Low Britons of France. Now, in the present state of ethnographical knowledge, the Indo-Germanic origin of the Celts is no longer contested. At epochs anterior to all historical records, and by slow migrations, the European races have advanced from India through Bactriana, Persia, Arabia, and Armenia; then, after having crossed the Hellespont (the present Dardanelles), they have invaded the vast countries now known by the names of Roumelia, Transylvania, Wallachia, Servia, Sclavonia, Croatia, Hungary, Styria, and Bohemia. Subsequently, when pressed by other masses of people arrived by the same route, they have abandoned these
5* This etymology seems incontrovertible. (See Pictet, de l'Affinité des langues celtiques avec le sanscrit, pp. 21 and 64.) As to that proposed by Edward Jones (loc. cit.) in deriving crwth from croth, which, in the Gaelic [? Celtic] language, signifies the calf of the leg, the womb, and also vessel for holding water, and which resembles the Syriac word cruth, and the Greek χρωστός, the signification of which is the same, I confess I do not understand the analogy.—Author.
7[Ed. Jones's words are these: "Croth, or Crwth, by the Britons, signifies the calf of the leg, the womb, or belly; as also by the Syrians כרת (Crath), and by the Grecians Κρωστός, signifies the womb, or a water-vessel.—Baxter's Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, p. 92. And Richards's Welsh Dictionary."]—Tr.
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