From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 69455
Date: 2012-04-29
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
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>> I'm affraid -bona: 'town' is exclusively Gaulish,
>> and thus certainly not Celtic and much less IE.
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> I meant exclusively Gaulish within Celtic, but of course not exclusive
> of Gaulish as it's also found in other non-Celtic and non-IE languages.
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> The Basque toponyms Irun, Iruña (Pamplona) are continuation of an old
> *il-o(:)n ~ *el-o(:)n (e.g. Pompailo:n in Strabo) whose second element
> corresponds to Gaulish -bo(:)na and -ipon in SW Iberia. The latter seems
> to have a VC class-prefix *?i- found also in other words as in e.g.
> Gascon i-sart, Catalan i-sard, Aragonese i-xarzo, chi-zard(o) 'Pyrenean
> chamois <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenean_Chamois> (Rubricapra
> pyrenaica)'.
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