Re: celtic duck

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Carl Hult <datalampa@...> wrote:

>
> If you go to http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/search.html and search for
> duck you will get tunag for duck and lach for wild duck in gaelic.

Be

> sure that you choose word, not headword as search type before you

press

> search on the search page. You won´t get anything with headword.
>
> MacBain´s must be taken with a whole bucket of salt, though, because
> there are errors here and there. Be warned.
>

That's nice. That's why Hamp thought the possible occurrence of *anat-
in 'Inis Ane' was worth mentioning, _because_ it isn't found in Celtic
anywhere else.


Torsten