From: Rick McCallister
Message: 48611
Date: 2007-05-16
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> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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-).
>
> Aha. I must have meant the o in coic then.
>
>
> Torsten
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