[tied] Re: Final -us/is in Celtic

>> No, no, no...your etymologies are all completely
>> wrong!
>
> What are the alternatives you advocate?

You originally wrote:

> *leukYús > *leukWúz. > louber

OW louber, MoW lleufer is a compound of lleu "light" (from either
Proto-Celtic *lug- or *louo-) + ber "carry" (PrC *bero- from PIE
*bher- "carry").

> *gWòvus > *bó:uz. > buar

McBain explains Old Irish búar as coming from from Proto-Irish *bou-
[a]r-os, a suffixed form of *boua: "cow".

> *triis > *traiz. > teir

W./Br. teir is cognate with Gaulisg tiđres, from Proto-Celtic
*tisres, derived from the PIE fem. tis(o)res.

> *ghdó:m > *du:(z.) > *domuz. > *dowar
> *ghdóm+ > *dom+

[snip]

> Breton douar, Welsh daear 'earth'

Jens Rasmussen (Miscellaneous morphological problems in Indo-European
languages V, CWPL 2, p. 98) suggests W. daear/Br. douar come from PIE
*dems-(h1)eg'her@2 "the borders of the dwelling", while Holger
Pedersen (Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen I-II, 1909-
1913) suggests PIE di- + H1eg'her.

- Chris Gwinn