Re: Gemination in Celtic

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 56703
Date: 2008-04-04

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:21:52 -0700 (PDT), Rick McCallister
<gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
>> Similarly, Lat. f- was borrowed as Ir. *hw-, which
>> only existed as
>> lenition of *sw-, hence the surface relationship
>> Lat. f- ¡ú OIr. s- (<
>> *sw-), in e.g. Lat. furnus ¡®oven¡¯ ¡ú OIr. sorn.
>>
>> Anders
>
>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, then OIr
>sorn may as well. There seems to be some type of
>sr-/fr- dichotomy in Celtic and between Celtic and
>other IE e.g. sron/fron- etc.

There is no such word. Perhaps you mean 'botorn' (Cast.
'bochorno'), from Lat. vulturnus 'hot wind'.

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