Re: Ebre = spanish river = celtiberic roots ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Octavià Alexandre <oalexandre@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> I see Basque ibai 'river' as a distant cognate of Proto-NEC
> *jimẋ_wĂ 'river'

How do you read that?


(NEC *w corresponds to Basque b).

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> Another possible cognate of the same root is *akwa: 'running water',
> the source of Latin acqua 'water', where it replaced the common
> inherited IE word. Hydronyms with *-apa/aba and *-upa/uba would also
> have come from this source.
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I am pleased that you agree with the ideas on my site.


Torsten