On 2007-10-20 01:25, tgpedersen wrote:
> Actually that was one of the words he acknowledged as being common to
> Celtic and Basque, whatever the reason.
Not quite. What he says here (following Gorrochategui)
http://www.buber.net/Basque/Euskara/Larry/note_6.html
suggests that the Basque word originated as one of a 'lord/lady' pair
and is not a loan from Celtic.
I don't think he wanted to imply that Celt. *andera: 'young woman (in
OIr.), heifer (in Brittonic)' was instead a loan from Basque; at any
rate he didn't say so in so many words.
Piotr