Re[2]: [tied] Re: Volcae and Volsci

At 11:52:09 PM on Friday, March 28, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- 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'.

> Are you sure about *krokno-?

> The <n> of cnocc, cnoc is pronounced /r/

In the modern language, and I believe not in all dialects.

> but ON hnakki points to **knokno- doesn't it?

So, I think, do the Celtic data. (And without Kluge's law
Matasovic has PCelt. *knokko- 'protuberance, hill'.

Brian