Re: Gemination in Celtic

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

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>
> I suppose if you have the horse with you
> you have a word for it.

Yes, and that word was the reflex of PIE *(h1)ek^wo- > PCelt. *ekWo-,
as seen in Gaul. epo- and OIr. ech (masc. o-st.) 'horse'.
And then of course there are the various words for 'mare', 'gelding'
etc.

>
> If you maintain that ca-pp-al is an impossible Celtic word,
> then it's interesting to determine when capal became
> a possible Irish word.

Most likely when the Irish learned to say /p/...

Anders