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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
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http://dnghu.org/Indo-European-Languages/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=5a341258abb3261b7aae1ad952c54a0d
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Thank you, MKelkar. Because, in it, I find MacBain's An Etymological
Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, with 2 pages worth of words in p-
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb28.html#MB.P
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb29.html
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb30.html
which is odd, since Gaelic is a q-Celtic language.
Some of the frequent explanations from Latin are undoubtedly correct,
but you're struck by the tortuousness of some of the derivations, both
the semantic and the morphological ones ('formed from', indeed), and
the equally frequent explanations from English are no really an
explanation either since 'true' Germanic words can't have p- either;
some are even not known in other Germanic languages than English. So,
are they Venetic, and have we found the missing language of Eastern
England? It does sort of look vaguely Italic.
Torsten