From: tgpedersen
Message: 48604
Date: 2007-05-16
>Aha. I must have meant the o in coic then.
> On 2007-05-15 22:31, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > How do you account for the o of OIr coic, Welsh pump?
>
> What "o"? PBrit. *pempe > OWel. pimp > MWel. pymp (before /m/) >
> Mod.Wel. pum(p), where, by the way, the pronunciation of <u> is _not_
> /u/ but /I/ (cf. Bret. pemp, Cor. pymp, Gaul. pinpe-).