Re: request to Celtic specialists

From: Torsten
Message: 68139
Date: 2011-10-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> W dniu 2011-10-23 23:43, Brian M. Scott pisze:
>
> > The closest I can come is the pair PCelt *ken-o 'descend
> > from, come into being, be born' (OIr <cinid>), which
> > Matasović derives from PIE *ken- 'begin', and PCelt
> > *kenetlo- 'race, kind' (OWelsh <cenetl>, Cornish
> > <kinethel>), from the same source. (I've not given all of
> > the reflexes; rather, I've picked the ones most like
> > 'knith'.)
>
> Incidentally, this is one of the verb roots shared by Celtic and
> _Slavic_ (rather than Proto-Bulgar). Proto-Slavic *c^In-/*c^eN-
> 'begin' belongs here.
>

Mind if I park this thread here? ;-)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66719
esp.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66755

so
*(p)kYeN- "do preparatory work; clean up (before work proper)" ??
*(p)kYeN-st- "cleaned up" ??


Torsten