Re: Volcanus>falcon?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "CG" <sonno3@...> wrote:

> > If you'd offer a definition of "background in Celtic linguistics"
> > I'd be able to offer an answer.
>
> The definition is self-evident, in my opinion - has Kuhn made any
> serious study of the standard texts dealing with Celtic etymology
> and phonology?
>

Obviously it is. Unfortunately I haven't the foggiest which "standard
texts dealing with Celtic etymology and phonology" you are referring
to. I'm no specialist on Celtic.

> > Obviuosly, in order to sift Nordwestblock
> > appellatives and onomastics from those ot its Celtic, Italic and
> > Germanic neighbors, he has to have knowledge of these languages.
>
> That's not obvious at all - quite a few authors of books on Western
> European onomastics don't seem to have mastered even the basics of
> Celtic linguistics.
>

What I can't understand is why you want me, who don't know much about
Celtic, to vouch for Kuhn, when you can read and assess him yourself,
unless of course you have a problem reading German?

EoD.

Torsten