[Sca-cooks] 12th Night 2007 Stories
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Sun Jan 7 07:33:15 PST 2007
> why use this obviously Celtic name? Is it just an
>Irish word for oats? Why is it not just oatmeal or porridge, or
>flummery, or what distinguishes it from them?
It is the Early Irish word for porridge and this
was for the Irish Living History group, therefore
the Irish name.
Ranvaig
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb24.html
lit
porridge, Middle Irish lité, Early Irish littiu,
g. litten, Welsh llith, mash: *littiôn- (Stokes),
*pl at .t-tiô, from pelt, polt, Greek @Gpóltos,
porridge, Latin puls, pultis, pottage.
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