From: Tavi
Message: 69085
Date: 2012-03-28
>IMHO Gallo-Brythonic *penno- would only explain a small part of all the recorded items.
> > The British Pennines only got their name around 1747, from
> > Charles Julius Bertram, the compiler of the forgery _De Situ
> > Britanniae_ attributed to Richard of Cirencester. The Alpes
> > Pennines in Switzerland, on the other hand, really do derive
> > from Celtic *penno- 'a mountain summit; a head; a hill; an
> > end', PCelt. *kWendo- 'head' (cf. OIr <cenn> 'head').
>
> It could be added that any *really* old (pre-Celtic) substratal word in
> *p- would have lost its initial at an early date. The mountain names in
> question are specifically Gallo-Brittonic, not even common Celtic.
>