Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:48:54 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-03-10 01:39, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
>> >*tekW-n-ó-.
>>
>> But shouldn't Kluge have applied to that as well?
>
>I assume *-kWn-' > *-gWn-' > *-wn- before the assimilation of nasals (as
>in *h2agWnó- > OE e:anian (denominative) or *sekW-ní- > *siuni-, plus
>the sporadic hardening of *w > *G as in OE nigon '9' (see the link in my
>previous post).

Yes, I see.

>> Just a thought: could *þegnaz be a borrowing from Celtic
>> (after Kluge's law, but before t(h) > þ)? Perhaps *teg-nós
>> "he of the house"?
>
>A thought worth following.

In that case:

Question #1: is *tegnos attested in Celtic?

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