From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 56176
Date: 2008-03-29
>Are you sure about *krokno-?*krokno- is the pre-Kluge P.Celt. for Ir. <crocenn>.
>The <n> of cnocc, cnoc is pronounced /r/ but ON hnakki=======================
>points to **knokno- doesn't it? --I don't know if
>Welsh also pronounces <cn> or if Breton does <kn> as
>/kr/ as well
>
>--- 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.
>. . .
> §52; Ir. <crocenn> etc. §53
>> (primitive Celt. *krokno-); Ir. <cnocc> 'hill' MnIr.
>> <cnoc>
>> OBr. <cnoch> MlBr. <knech> MnBr. <kreac'h> W.
>> <cnwch>
>> 'joint, knuckle' : ON. <hnakki> 'neck'.
>. . .
>
>
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