Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Henry Lewis and Holger Pedersen in "A Concise Comparative
> Celtic Grammar" (1937, 3rd. ed. 1974) posit Kluge's law for
> Celtic.
>

Yes, and Lühr published a long article on the matter
(Sprachwissentschaft 10 (1985): 274-346). Getting the PIE accent
involved may of course help with the numerous counter-examples, but it
will be hard to control, given that we have no other trace of PIE
accent in Celtic.

Anders