Re[3]: [tied] Gemination in Celtic

At 8:38:09 PM on Friday, April 4, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

[...]

> 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

But it's OIr <topar, topur>, presumably with <p>
representing [b], and Early Modern Irish <tobar>.

Brian