Re: CELT: Welsh Goblin seeks etymology

[Clinton Moreland-Stringham <morelanc@UCSU.COLORADO.EDU>]

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Andrew Smith wrote:

> I have been working through Herman Miller's Zarkhand list, some words in
> Brithenig that can be adapted to roleplaying would not go amiss, but
> finding the right word for 'goblin' is causing to be tricky.  I think it
> should be derived from bwca or bwgan (Gaelic bocan), but I can't find a
> reliable etymology for the word to find the Brithenig form.  Does anyone
> have access to a reliable source?

        Recent research into the same thing seems to indicate that there
aren't any reliable derivations of the word...it seems that no one knows
for sure....

        Clinton