Re: Cimbri Name = the thieves

> I don't believe that Old Irish had them. If I remember
> correctly from Jackson, Celtic /u:/ > Brit. /ü:/ > Brit.
> /i:/, yielding /i/ in Welsh, Cornish, and Breton; Old Welsh,
> Old Cornish, and Old Breton had /ü/ from /u/ in some
> contexts; late OCorc. and OBret. developed /ö:/ from /O:/;
> and I'm sure that I've forgotten some. They aren't Common
> Celtic, so far as I know.

I suppose you could save the statement that languages with (former)
+high +round vowels are coextensive with former Celtic languages by
substituting 'p-Celtic' for 'Celtic'?

On the other hand, that would make NWBlock p-Celtic. Hm. Back to the
drawingboard.


Torsten