Basque Peas (was: *(H-)p/bh[-r/l-] again again)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:05:09 +0000, Marco Moretti
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

> >Celtic /*itus/ derives from /*pitu-/ and developed to the Welsh

word,

> >I knew of it. But it central meaning seems to be "corn". An

homophone

> >item is found also in Welsh hydronyms, but in that case it cannot
> >have the same origin.
>
> I think it can. One of the meanings of *peit- is "fat" (cf.

Llóbrega,

> Vall-Llóbrega and other Catalan place names derived from lubricare,
> lubricatus "fatty, slippery").
>
> >But connections with peas are still definitely strange to me.
>
> Peas are good food. They also go well with a collective ending

like -arr.

And dried peas are hard!

Richard.