Re: Gemination in Celtic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Anders R. Joergensen"
<ollga_loudec@...> wrote:

>
> >
> > LAtin LWs like clan < planta
> > are probably influenced by the fact
> > Irish speakers knew Oirl -c- = Welsh -p-
> > So they applied this equivalence to LAtin words.
>
> I don¡¯t think this kind of borrowing is very unlikely.
>

Sorry, it should of course be:

> I don't think this kind of borrowing is very likely.

And sorry about the mangled special characters, the message was written
off-line in Word.

Anders