From: tgpedersen
Message: 47563
Date: 2007-02-22
>On the subject, look for 'duck' in
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Selway <gordonselway@> wrote:
> >
> > May I intervene with an off-topic question? If
> > la(h)hanza(n) is duck in Hi, is Gad. lach/lacha
> > just co-incidence? I've little to hand to tell
> > me more, only quotidian dictionaries and what I
> > can dig up via Google (which is so far limited to
> > McBain: 'lach: a wild duck, Irish, Early Irish
> > lacha; cf. the Lithuanian root lak, fly', without
> > further explanation).
>
> I'd say it's a coincidence. The n>l change seems
> specific to Hittite. Anyway, I'd say that lx > Lx >
> Lux etc., in Celtic. So x (ch) shouldn't be preserved
> after a.
>