Re[2]: [tied] Gemination in Celtic

At 2:32:09 PM on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, Anders R.
Joergensen wrote:

> Before we got a bit sidetracked by the whole mak- 'eat'
> discussion, I responded to your (Arnaud's) list of
> alledged instances of *-h2G- > PCelt. -KK-.

> There were some words that required additional
> clarification and I also presented some possible
> counter-examples to the proposed law, that you might want
> to address (see below).

[...]

>>> O.irl Stuc "hill"

>>> O.irl stu:c "angered face"
>>> Lit stug-ti

>> I'm a bit lost here. I can't identify the OIr. words you
>> refer to. Furthermore, initial st- is generally not
>> inherited in Irish (PCelt. *st- gives OIr. s-).

This is apparently modern Irish <stuaic>, for which Dinneen
gives a wide range of definitions covering both of the
semantic areas given by Arnaud. He says that it also
appears as <stúc>. For Sc.Gael. MacBain has <stuaic> 'a
little hill, round promontory', also 'sullen countenance,
extreme boorishness', and <stùc(d)> 'a little hill jutting
out from a greater', as well as <stùic(hd)> 'a projecting
crag, an angry or threatening aspect', from <stùc>.

Brian