Re: Strange words out of place

> Further, the word seems to belong to a *wip-, *wimp-, *wik-, *wik-
> family of appellatives (non-toponyms), and that characterizes
> it/them as belonging to a substrate language in NWEurope,
> Schrijver's 'language of geminates' (check archives).
>
> Torsten
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> This language of geminates is basically
> a variety of Celtic.
> So
> What is the next point ?
>
> Arnaud
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What do you base that on?

Torsten

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I have already written a couple of times that :
Alef + C (unvoiced stop) =

- CC- in Celtic and Osco-Umbrian
- long vowel + C in Latin
- G voiced stop in Central and Eastern PIE.

A good example is : *bh_l-H2-k

LAtin ful-c-rum
Greek phalan-g-s
Germanic bal-c-on
Skrt bhur-zh-
etc

(s-)leu-?-k "swallow"

Irish slu-g-im < -kk-
German schlu-ck- < slu-g-
etc

Arnaud

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