For Finn "Know" see:
Thurneysen's "A Grammar of Old Irish," Lewis and Pedersen's "A
Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar."
----- Original Message -----From: Piotr GasiorowskiSent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 12:22 PMSubject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Odp: Odp: The Wends and the Venedi----- Original Message -----From: Christopher GwinnSent: Friday, January 28, 2000 8:49 PMSubject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Odp: The Wends and the VenediWe have the Irish verbal root Finn "to know" and Welsh Gwnn "I know" which both seem to be from *Uind - from Common Celtic *Uid- "see" with infixed nasal.
I don't know Irish finn with this meaning; where is it attested? If (Middle) Welsh gwnn (MBreton goun, Cornish gon) is from *wind-, why didn't it develop like *wind- 'white' (gwyn, Breton gwenn, Cornish guyn)? I don't know as much as I'd like to know about the development of diphtongs in Brythonic, but isn't it possible that gwnn < *woid-n-? Just asking.Piotr
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