Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> the Scottish Clan Chattan is associated with the cat
> any chance it could just be a folk etymology and have
> something to do with Chatti?
> Or conversely, that the Chatti are a "Cat Clan"?
>

Now that's interesting.
The geminated -tt- indicates something other that IE, if it doesn't
come from some later morpheme collision. The Celtic is Cassi, but also
-castini, with -ss- and -st-.

Any other bidders?


Torsten