Authority Cited: Pezron, Pezon
Author name and dates: Paul-Yves Pezron (1639-1706)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cistercian from Brittany; Paris College of St. Bernard; traced Welsh origins to Celts in classics writers; SJ: etym. of fail, glass
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Pezron cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Pezron cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
Dict, etym.: "faeln, Welsh. Pezron"
1706 Pezron text (p.302): Fael, Error, Defect, Fault, comes from the Celtick, Fael.
glass
Dict, etym.: "glæs, Saxon; glas, Dutch, as Pezon imagines from glâs, British, green")
1706 Pezron text (p.304): "Glass, Glass, and yellow Amber, comes from the Celtick glas; which signified Glass and a green Colour."
Author name and dates: Paul-Yves Pezron (1639-1706)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cistercian from Brittany; Paris College of St. Bernard; traced Welsh origins to Celts in classics writers; SJ: etym. of fail, glass
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Pezron cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Pezron cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
- Antiquité de la nation, et de langue des celtes, autremnet appellez Gaulois. Par le r. p. dom P. Pezron. 1703, A Paris, Chez P. Marchand et G. Martin OR
- The antiquities of nations; more particularly of the Celtæ or Gauls, taken to be originally the same people as our ancient Britains. Containing Great Variety of Historical, Chronological, and Etymological Discoveries, many of them unknown both to the Greeks and Romans. By Monsieur Pezron, Doctor in Divinity, and Abbot of la Charmoye in France. Englished by Mr. Jones. 1706, London: printed by R. Janeway, for S. Ballard, at the Blue-Ball in Little Britain; and R. Burrough, at the Sun and Moon in Cornhill.
Dict, etym.: "faeln, Welsh. Pezron"
1706 Pezron text (p.302): Fael, Error, Defect, Fault, comes from the Celtick, Fael.
glass
Dict, etym.: "glæs, Saxon; glas, Dutch, as Pezon imagines from glâs, British, green")
1706 Pezron text (p.304): "Glass, Glass, and yellow Amber, comes from the Celtick glas; which signified Glass and a green Colour."