At 4:52:35 AM on Tuesday, July 24, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 4:40:54 PM on Sunday, July 22, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:
[...]
>>> The decision what was foreign and non-foreign was mine.
>> Failure to point this out, especially when the decision
>> is contentious, is ... sloppy, to put a better face on it
>> than I think is actually justifiable.
> Who else should decide it?
Where did I say that you shouldn't make the decisions for
yourself? The problem is that you presented your decisions
as if they all went without saying, when in fact several of
them were distinctly questionable -- not necessarily wrong,
but certainly questionable. This is *not* something that I
should have to check your source(s) to discover.
[...]
> From your tentative position which is not a position, how
> would you explain the many words in p- in both p- and
> q-Celtic? [...]
The DIL has only about 20 pages of <p-> words, most of which
are readily identifiable as loanwords from Latin, Romance,
or English, or derivatives thereof. I know less about
Welsh, but it's clear by inspection that a great many of the
<p-> words in _Y Geiriadur Mawr_ are borrowings from the
same sources.
Doubtless in both cases there is a residue once the
identifiable loans and the instances of Welsh /p-/ < *kW-
have been removed; it's a safe bet that no single
explanation covers this residue.
Brian