Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

At 5:09:55 AM on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57"
> <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

>>> A similar case would be IE *penkWe- '5' ~ NEC *fimk?wV
>>> 'fist'. If I'm not mistaken, Petr suggested that
>>> Starostin's f should be replaced by X\W or XW.

>> What are the attested words on which this NEC
>> reconstruction is based?

> See here:
> http://newstar.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/cauc/caucet&text_number=1008&root=config

>> Can we rigorously exclude a borrowing from Gothic?

> Definitely.

This may be true for all I know, but it would be instructive
(and possibly amusing) to see what you consider a rigorous
demonstration that borrowing from Gothic is excluded.

Brian