--- "Anders R. Joergensen" <
ollga_loudec@...>
wrote:
> A PCelt. *kappilo- is not possible, on the other
> hand, especially not
> surviving as such into Irish - but we've already
> been over this.
It's pretty obvious that if capall is not a loan word
from Latin, then it goes back to something like
*cabal- and that the intervocalic /-b-/ was hardened.
This happened in other words in Irish such as topar
"well" < tobar (vel sim) and seems to have happened in
medieval times
Ask Kim Mc Cone, Dennis King, Chris Gwinn or someone
else who really knows something about Celtic before
arbitrarily inventing a new phonological system while
trying to pigeonhole a single word
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