Re: Gemination in Celtic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
>
> > -?p- > pp > p
> > -p- > F > z¨¦ro
> >
> > Where's the problem ?
>
> Doesn't the absence of a letter for /p/ (or /pp/) in Ogam bother

you?

> Anders
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>
> How do you write Oirl capal "horse" with Ogam ?
>
> Arnaud
>
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I don't, at least not if I'm an 4-6th c. Irishman. I have no /p/
(or /pp/) and no letter for it. Had a word *kappilo- (or the like)
entered my language at this early stage, it would have
become /kakWkWila-/, written CAQ(Q)IL(L)A- (or the like, depending on
further developments).

Anyway, Ogam didn't have anything for /p(p)/ because, at the time it
was created, there were no p's in the language, hence no need for it.

Anders