Re: Gemination in Celtic

--- "Anders R. Joergensen" <ollga_loudec@...>
wrote:

> > How do you write Oirl capal "horse" with Ogam ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > =================
>
> 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).

. . .
Irish sometimes "hardened" intervocalic /b/, e.g.
tobar > topar (vel sim). /p/ then was just an
allophone of /b/.



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