Are you sure about *krokno-?
The <n> of cnocc, cnoc is pronounced /r/ but ON hnakki
points to **knokno- doesn't it? --I don't know if
Welsh also pronounces <cn> or if Breton does <kn> as
/kr/ as well
--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <
miguelc@...> wrote:
. . .
> Henry Lewis and Holger Pedersen in "A Concise
> Comparative
> Celtic Grammar" (1937, 3rd. ed. 1974) posit Kluge's
> law for
> Celtic.
. . .
§52; Ir. <crocenn> etc. §53
> (primitive Celt. *krokno-); Ir. <cnocc> 'hill' MnIr.
> <cnoc>
> OBr. <cnoch> MlBr. <knech> MnBr. <kreac'h> W.
> <cnwch>
> 'joint, knuckle' : ON. <hnakki> 'neck'.
. . .
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