Re: Ebre = spanish river = celtiberic roots ?

From: Octavià Alexandre
Message: 48344
Date: 2007-04-19

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Octavià Alexandre oalexandre@ wrote:
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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.
>
> PIE *akwa: is attested by both Latin and Germanic, with some possible
> relatives in other groups. Incidentaly, the Latin is simply <aqua>.
>
But my point is *akWa: isn't of IE origin, but rather a substrate word borrowed by some IE groups.