Re[2]: [tied] Gemination in Celtic

At 9:21:52 PM on Thursday, April 3, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

[...]

> Coincidently, I remember (hopefully correctly) an entry in
> one of Coromines's books where he gives Catalan sorn for
> "hot, muggy weather" --so if by chance the Catalan word
> goes back to Celtic, [...]

I'd be inclined to suspect a connection with Occitan <sorn>,
glossed (in French) 'sombre, obscur'.

Brian