Re: Volcae and Volsci

At 5:58:33 PM on Friday, March 28, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>> From: tgpedersen

[...]

>>> *kat-
>>> Germanic *hanti is a LW from Uralic *kom-t-(i)

>> It might be.

>> I was a bit desperate that
>> you may write some sensical.
>> Good news.

>>> There is no geminate at all here.

>> No geminate where?

>> In *hanti < *kom-t-(i)

> Semantically "side, flank" > "cover, protection", Celtic
> *kassi-, related to Chatti.

Matasovic:

PCelt. *kassi- 'hatred, hate' (OIr <cais> 'strong emotion
(whether positive or negative'; OWel, MBret, Corn <cas>) <
PIE *k^ah2d- 'hate'.

PCelt. *kasso- 'curly, woven, twisted' (OIr <cass>, Gaulish
<Cassi->, <Bodio-casses>), no PIE.

Brian