Celto-Germanic — HATRED *kad-
Publishes the proposed derivational analysis.
p. 101, *katsi- < *kad-t/si- and HATRED *kad-- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- John T. Koch
- YEAR
- 2020
- PUBLISHER
- University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. It is a published proposal, not an attested sequence, and the wider cross-branch set remains semantically disputed.
not directly recoverable · Middle Irish noun
eDIL separates two Irish headwords written cais. The first, also recorded as caise, is explicitly explained both as love and as hate; its cited passages and glossary equations range from searc and grádh "love" to miscais and mioscais "hatred", with context deciding individual readings. One Éigse line is tentatively translated so that the same visible form occurs on both sides: "my love ... is met by hatred(?)". The question mark matters. The second eDIL headword cais means "eye" and is excluded from this semantic lineage. These records establish a remarkable lexicographic opposition, not one timeless essence, a chronology from love to hate, or proof that every occurrence belongs to one historically indivisible sense. John T. Koch compares the noun with Proto-Celtic *katsi- < *kad-t/si- and a wider *kad- family, but that ancestry and its proposed Germanic comparison remain open. eDIL itself generally supplies etymologies only selectively. No manuscript pixels were directly inspected, no earliest-use or historical-frequency claim is made, and no exact pronunciation is invented.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Publishes the proposed derivational analysis.
p. 101, *katsi- < *kad-t/si- and HATRED *kad-Questions the deeper set's transparent unity.
Non-Germanic comparison and semantic conclusionThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.