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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- 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!

Yes, they loose water, nothing slippy or fat.
We are still far from truth.

Marco