Re[4]: [tied] Re: root *pVs- for cat

At 3:25:07 AM on Monday, July 9, 2007, Rick McCallister
wrote:

[...]

> From what you say, unless this [i.e., preaspiration of
> (some) voiceless stops] is a Uralic trait, I guess the
> source was Saami

I find the arguments for early Scandinavian origin much more
convincing.

> Another thing that I believe that Scots Gaelic and
> Scandinavian languages have in common is <nn> as /dn/

Icelandic <nn> is [dn] after long vowels and diphthongs (or
[dn.] in final position); I'm not offhand aware of any
similar phenomenon in Sc.Gael.

Brian