> [Zimmer, Stefan](zimmer-s.md). "Another Indo-Celtic parallel: Irish *cethrochair*, etc.". [*Celtic Forum*](journal-celtic-fourm), No. 8, August 2005 (ISSN 1342-940X), Spalte2a-4a. > [academia.edu](https://www.academia.edu/2945293/2005_Another_Indo-Celtic_Parallel_Irish_cethrochair_etc) #have #nodoi #link KEY WORDS: Old Irish cethr-ochair, Middle Welsh pedry-dant, Sanskrit catur-aśra-, heroic epithets, Indo-European poetics. ## Abstract > Old Irish *cethr-ochair*, Middle Welsh *pedry-dant* (and similar formations), if used as heroic epithets, are not to be understoood literally. The Sanskrit parallel *catur-aśra* helps to understand how words for ‚rectangular‘, vel sim., could acquire a meaning ‚perfect‘, vel sim. This note argues for inheritance of that peculiar usage from Indo-European poetics. Etymology points to a special bellicose connotation.