RE : Re: [tied] *pYerkW+

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado <dicoceltique@...>
wrote:

>
> Hello i ve no idea about Perkh-
> but i found this
>
> IE Perk = Dark
> Grec Perkazin = to become dark, Grec Perke = Perch (dark fish) <

Latin Perca

> Celtic Erkunia = Oak forest because the oak is leafy and thick <

dark (?)

> but Hindi Pargai (Kind of oak) ans Sanskrit Parkati/Paraktah (Fig

tree)

>
> IE Prek- = Spoted/Specled (?)
> Grec Praknos (Dark ?)
> Celtic (P)erko- <(P)rko- < Brikko- ? = Britonic = Middle Breton

Brech/Briz < Breton Brec'h/Brizh (Smallpox) et Brikailh (Variegation).
Cornique Bregh/Bryth (chickenpox). Welsh Brech (chickenpox) and Welsh
Brych/Brychu/Brith (Spot/Spotted)

> = Gaelic = Old

Irish Brecc/Brecht (Spoted) < Irish Breac (Flecked). Manx Breckey
(Many colored)

> French dialectal Brèche multi colored cow
> Germanic = Old Norse Freknur < Norse Fregne. Suedish Brokig

(Dapled) and Fräkne

> (Freckled). English Freckles
> Sanskrit Prsnih mutli colored
> Albanish Prenkë Frecked
>
> Does it possible that IE Perk/Prek done
> * Celtic (P)erk
> * Celtic Brikk- (from metatesis Pirk- < Prik < Brik ?)

This doesn't seem like a likely grouping together of roots to me.
*pY(e)rkWus 'oak' needs a rounded kW not k (at least in some forms) >
quercus in Latin.

The br- is from *mr- (Old Irish mrecht = Welsh brith), probably
*mr,ghnos > *mrikhnos > *mrikkos > brecc.