Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

From: tgpedersen
Message: 59935
Date: 2008-09-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:
>
> > > > > In Joz^ef S^avli/Matej Bor: Unsere Vorfahren die Veneter
> > > > > (review of the English translation here:
> > > > > http://tinyurl.com/6jn43n )
> >
> > Here are the alleged Breton - Slovenian correspondent words (pp.
> > 339-343, translated
> >
> > It is of course interesting which of the words are only Breton and
> > Slovenian and which are generally Celtic and Slavic, respectively.
> > Comments are appreciated.
>
> The author of this list seems to be blissfully unaware of the
> historical phonology of Breton - he should study Kenneth Jackson's
> work on the subject to avoid embarrassing himself with such
> nonsense in the future.


Is that a general comment, or do you want to point out something
specific he has misunderstood?


Torsten