[tied] Re: root *pVs- for cat

> > If you want to ignore the NWBlock 'issue' (other people
> > call it a language), that is the way to go.
>
> The issue in question was whether some such language had
> anything to do with this <p> ~ <b> alternation.

If 'some such language' means NWBlock the answer is yes, NWBlock words
do have p/b alternation, as mentioned by Kuhn:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/49284

> In the case
> of the borrowings it obviously doesn't. Of the words that I
> mentioned, at most two are relevant, and quite possibly only
> one; observing that this is the case does not require
> ignoring anything.

And here 'some such language' can't mean NWBlock, since you are
considering only the examples from Celtic, you supplied yourself, not
those supplied by Kuhn.

What did you mean?

> Note also that if in fact it really is primarily a ScGael
> phenomenon, then the odds are very much against its having
> anything to do with NWB influence except in some tiny
> fraction of cases: not only should it appear already in EIr,

Why?

> but s what appears to be a better explanation is available.

Of course it is better after you excluded NWBlock, without giving a
reason for that.


Torsten