Re: The oddness of Gaelic words in p-

At 5:58:12 PM on Monday, June 2, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 3:37:11 PM on Monday, June 2, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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>>> And *-ka: is? If that's the general rule, how come there
>>> are so few geminates in Latin (apart from in preverb +
>>> verb combinations)?

>> How common is *TK in any other context?

> If that *-ka: thing had been a real suffix, very common.

Depends entirely on what it is, obviously. As I recall,
Beekes somewhere mentions that a *-k- suffix of some kind is
found in a number of Latin thematic verbs. But by all means
don't let the opinions of real linguists get in your way.

Brian