Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

At 1:44:34 PM on Saturday, March 31, 2012, Tavi wrote:

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

>>> my guess is it was borrowed into P-Celtic *pant- and
>>> Q-Celtic (Goidelic) *kWant-. Of course, the time of
>>> borrowing must postdate Common Celtic, which it already
>>> had *bando-/*bendo- 'peak top'.

>> Like many others, I'm not convinced that P-Celtic and
>> Q-Celtic are genuine subfamilies.

> Why so?

Do some basic reading in the field. Even the WP article
will tell you why.