Note 4 — Chapter XII · Race in Folklore and Myth

It will be noticed that there is a discrepancy between the gutturals of these two words: tyngu, ‘to swear’ (O. Ir. tongu, ‘I swear’), has ng—the Kulhwch spelling, tynghaf, should probably be tyngaf—while tynghed and its Irish equivalent imply an nc. I do not know how to explain this, though I cannot doubt the fact of the words being treated as cognate. A somewhat similar difference, however, occurs in Welsh dwyn, ‘to bear, carry, steal,’ and dwg, ‘carries, bears’: see the Revue Celtique, vi. 18–9. ↑