From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 33079
Date: 2004-06-04
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Selway <gordonselway@...>Without further information on it, Lusitanian is just Celtic
>wrote:
>> At 8:58 am +0000 04/06/2004, tgpedersen wrote:
>> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
>wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:21:12 +0000, tgpedersen
>> >> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >They are of courese loans from that famous IE dialect which
>had p-
>> >> >t-, k- > 0. No, but seriously, could you counter such a claim?
>> >> >What specifically Celtic is there about those loans?
>> >>
>> >> The clearest example is Bsq. *egi (-egi, -tegi, -degi, etxe
>> >> "house"), which must be Celtic.
>> >
>> >Because...?
>
>> ModIr 'teach', SG 't(a)igh'
>
>Torsten isn't disputing that *teg- has the meaning 'house' in
>Celtic. He's asking why it has to be a loan from Celtic rather than
>some now extinct branch of Indo-European. Why not from Lusitanian?
>For instance, Greek (s)teg-os/-e: could mean 'roofed construction' asOnly in Celtic (well, and Cretan <stega>) it is the normal
>well as roof, so I presume he sees nothing uniquely Celtic in the
>meaning 'house'.