From: alex
Message: 24791
Date: 2003-07-24
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "alex" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:55 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Velesu/Volosu
> At 12:20:21 PM on Thursday, July 24, 2003, alex wrote:
>
> > What seems strange to the celtic "volcae" is the rendering
> > in German. If the germans got the name from the celts,
> > then this must have been "*wolhai".
>
> No. PIE *o and *a had merged in Gmc. as *a, so Celtic *o in
> *wolk- was borrowed as *a. The *k was lenited in the Celtic
> word, so it was borrowed as *x (or *h, if you prefer). The
> Latin inflexional ending <-ae> is irrelevant.
Germaninc "volk" is still not cleared and I assume you have the answer
for this word. Do you?
Alex