The name ''Paris'' is derived from its early inhabitants, the Parisii (Gaulish: ''Parisioi''), a Gallic tribe from the Iron Age and the Roman period. The meaning of the Gaulish ethnonym remains debated. According to Xavier Delamarre, it may derive from the Celtic root ''pario-'' ('cauldron'). Alfred Holder interpreted the name as 'the makers' or 'the commanders', by comparing it to the Welsh ''peryff'' ('lord, commander'), both possibly descending from a Proto-Celtic form reconstructed as *''kwar-is-io''-. Alternatively, Pierre-Yves Lambert proposed to translate ''Parisii'' as the 'spear people', by connecting the first element to the Old Irish ''carr'' ('spear'), derived from an earlier *''kwar-sā''. In any case, the city's name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology.