Re: Gemination in Celtic

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 56365
Date: 2008-04-01

émaquer would be my guess in standard French, but I
don't know the dynamics of Picard et al. My only guess
is that some how in a non-written language, the é- got
lost, but someone knowledgeable in Picard would have
to figure out whether or not that's possible.


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
>
> >
> I don't think he said he didn't like it, it seems he
> felt maquer was probably from Gmc rather than Celtic
>
> > You don't like
> > makk / smag
> >
> ===========
> smak should become émaquer ?
>
> But as we are trying to substantiate
> something new,
> we can discard unclear examples
> as a first step.
>
> Arnaud
>
> ==========
>
>
>



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