Re: Ligurian

At 1:15:54 AM on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> I've seen Ligurian listed as non-IE, an IE language
> (non-Celtic) and as Celtic. I've also read that there was
> a non-IE Ligurian and an IE Ligurian --i.e. 2 different
> languages. I looked on the web to see if there was
> anything new and found this.

[...]

> Some of the animal names are obviously close to Celtic,
> but are there Celtic cognates for brennu, cicnu and hirpu?

OIr <bran> 'raven'. <Cicnu> is rather more reminiscent of
Latin <cygnus> and Gk. <kuknos>.

Brian