Re: root *pVs- for cat

From: tgpedersen
Message: 49237
Date: 2007-07-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Gaelic piseag can not be from Celtic because it has a
> > /p-/. It also has a dimunitive ending -ag.
>
>
> -ic~a of Romanian pisic~a is a diminutive too
>
> see : mam~a -> m~am-ic~a
>
> Macbain's
> > book is based on a specific dialect, not Gaelic as a
> > whole or even standard Gaelic. I've seen other forms
> > of the word such as pus, puis. It IS from English,
> > given that the normal Gaelic word is cat, which is
> > from Latin. If you don't believe me, ask Kim Mc Cone
> > or another specialist in Gaelic and Celtic languagues.
> >
>
> 1. If Gaelic piseag IS from English (with bold :), not with
> arguments) ... from where is English puss?
>
> 2. Why English puss has an Unknown Etymology (Webster)?
>
> 3. Where are Germanic counterparts of English puss?
>

'puss' has p- and therefore can't be Germanic either (since that would
be from almost non-existent PIE b-). As a matter of fact, initial p-
is one of the criteria Kuhn uses to identify NWBlock loans. It so
happens that I have made a list of Kuhn's NWBlock words in p- and
supplemented it with Celtic (Irish, Welsh, Breton) cognates, also in
p- which shouldn't be there, but all three dictionaries I consulted
were brim-full with words in p- (and the NWBlock cognates all had
invariably p-, regardless of whether the language was q-Celtic or
p-Celtic), and it worries me that no Celtic expert has been puzzled
and/or dismisses them as loans from Enlgish (but they can't be
English, they have p-!).

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/KuhnText/list.html

One possible solution is to consider whether it is possible the Celts
in England had replaced a NWBlock-speaking people. Is there some
heavy-duty Celtic expert out there who will issue something
authoritative on this subject?


As for the -eag suffix; it appears in several of the Celtic cognates
I've found to Kuhn's list; it seems to correspond to the typical
NWBlock -Vk-suffix


Torsten