Published 2017-05-01
“…The ‘hag’ linguistic motif is omnipresent in toponymy, oral literature and
lexical semantics. Research has highlighted concordances between different cultural and linguistic areas, notably through the development of a method for researching and processing ethnolinguistic data.There are around a hundred Breton place names featuring this motif in the forms Gr(o)ac’h, (G)wrac’h, Vr(o)ac’h and Gr(o)ah, such as Croas ar Vroac’h ‘hag’s cross’, Kergwrac’h ‘hag’s village/house’, Ar Wrac’h ‘the hag’ (an obstacle), Porz-Grac’h ‘hag’s pass’, Guernégrouac’h ‘hag’s bog’, and in the forms Men-er-Grah ‘hag’s rock’ and Bez ar Wrac’h ‘hag’s tomb’ (two megaliths). …”
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