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Etymology of the Name

Entries in the University of Wales' reconstructed Proto-Celtic lexicon (http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/pcl-moe.pdf ) suggest that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic *Kridio-latoā, a phrase with the Proto-Celtic semantic connotations of ‘Female Heart-Felt Lust’ which aspect of nature She may well personify. If so, this would make her comparable to the Nordic Freja, Roman Venus, Greek Aphrodite, Canaanite Astarte, Assyrian Ishtar and Egyptian Hathor.