Re: [tied] H1

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 3:29:09 AM on Friday, August 24, 2007, fournet.arnaud
> wrote:

> > Welsh
> > llech stone from l_H1

> It's actually 'slate'. Matasovic makes the PCelt. *flikka:
> '(flat) stone', from PIE *plkeh2 'flat surface'. Evidently
> the Welsh <ch> (and the final geminate in OIr <lecc>
> '(sepulcral) plate, stone') reflects PCelt. *kk from PIE *k.

I'd say that kn>kk before final accent; I suppose some linguists
still don't accept this old rule. If this is related to 'flat' (I
have some specific and odd ideas about this root) I'd connect it to
Latin plancus 'flat-footed', planca 'board'.