Re: [tied] Celtic and Baltic

07-11-03 17:14, Egijus wrote:

> According to my knowledge there isn't Slavic word GALIA. Or I'm
> not wright?

I'm not Shaw you are Wright. Pokorny gives Slavic *gole^mU 'huge' as a
cognate.

> What word CELT means? In Lithuanian language word KELTAS means
> FERRY, RAFT.

The Lithuanian word seems to be related to Slavic *c^IlnU 'boat, canoe',
but not to the Celtic ethnonym *kelto-/*kelta:-, I'm not sure what the
latter "means" in the sense that it has no obvious etymology. Maybe
Chris Gwinn can help us.

Piotr