Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> > the Scottish Clan Chattan is associated with the cat
> > any chance it could just be a folk etymology and have
> > something to do with Chatti?
> > Or conversely, that the Chatti are a "Cat Clan"?
> >
>
> Now that's interesting.
> The geminated -tt- indicates something other that IE, if it doesn't
> come from some later morpheme collision. The Celtic is Cassi, but
> also -castini, with -ss- and -st-.
>
> Any other bidders?
>
> Torsten
> ============
>
> Geminated -tt- is Celtic.
>
> Arnaud
>
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What makes you say that?
PIE *-tt- > Celtic (and Germanic and Italic) *-ss-; I thought that was
common knowledge?



Torsten