Re: [tied] Re: IE & linguistic complexity

Have The character Yspaddaden (or Yspadadden, I don't remember) an etymology similar to these ones?

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From: Christopher Gwinn

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:19 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: IE & linguistic complexity

>It's curious the sp-, sk- st- received a prothetical vowel in Western Romance, not in Germanic, nor Slavic, >Celtic, Greek or Baltic.

It does occur in Welsh loanwords from English (along with the Vulgar Latin loans), however:

Yslafri "Slavery"

Ysbail "Spoil"

-C. Gwinn