Re: The oddness of Gaelic words in p-

At 6:46:24 AM on Sunday, June 1, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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> Here are some comparanda:
> Jysk:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30336
> NWB:
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/KuhnText/list.html

> I have peppered the various entries (from Kuhn) with what
> I could find in Irish, Welsh and Breton (occurrences in
> Breton are particularly difficult to explain as loans from
> English).

And the very first one completely misses the obvious source
of Irish <peacadh>, Breton <péc'hed>, and Welsh <pechod>
(not to mention OIr <peccad>): these are borrowings of Latin
<peccatum>.

Brian