Re: Gemination in Celtic

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anders R. Joergensen" <ollga_loudec@...>
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> > 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.
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> Most likely when the Irish learned to say /p/...
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> Anders
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> So *when* was that ?

If not slightly earlier, then certainly when syncope set in. This way
you get -mbVh- > -mb'h- > -mp-. This is, I think, the standard view.

Anders