Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 61634
Date: 2008-11-15

At 8:27:25 PM on Friday, November 14, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 4:55:27 PM on Friday, November 14, 2008, Rick
>> McCallister wrote:

>> [...]

>>> I seem to remember that the Breton word for "lively"
>>> begins with bis-,

>> Words that I can find whose senses include 'lively' are
>> <buhezek>, <bev>, <buan>, and <bliv>, with various shades
>> of meaning.

> Do you have their etymology, and info on whether they're
> Vannetais or not?

No, that was just from a quick and dirty look at the two
Breton dictionaries that are at hand.

Brian