Re: Celtic and Baltic

> > If so, the connection with Lith. <kéltas> 'ferry(-boat)' offered

by

> > Egijus still can't be excluded. It's hard to believe the only
> > connection between <kéltas> and <kélti> (< PIE *kel(h1)- 'lift;

set

> > in motion') 'lift, raise, wake up, put up (also figuratively --
> 'put
> > up a fight' etc); take across (by water); carry, transfer, move
> > (somewhere else)' is a folk-etymological one. Cf. also <kilnóti>

(<

> > *klh1-n-) 'carry, transfer, move (somewhere else);take across (by
> > water);lift' and <kelnas> 'ferry-boat' (quoted by Vasmer, I must
> > admit I've never heard the word); also <ke~lias> 'road, way'. So
> > probably *Celtos could mean something 'having crossed a river'
> (like
> > Hebr. <'ibri:> ?) :).
> >
>
> Møller links the root of the 'wheel' IE word to some Arabic
> words 'going fast on horseback' my memory has recorded somewhere;
> that would mean death(?) to my attempts to find words for "round"
> connected with it:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/kr.html
>

I looked it up: it was Bomhard, not Møller, and it was the cognates
of Latin 'rota', not the *k-l- word, but other than that, it was
accurate. My ears are red.

Torsten