Re[4]: [tied] Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

At 12:29:36 PM on Friday, September 5, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 2:22:11 AM on Friday, September 5, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
>> wrote:

>>> From: "indravayu" <sonno3@...>

>>>>> Cf. place-names in Breton : pagus, locus, -ec < -acus,
>>>>> etc. 100% latin.

>>>> Well, -acus is actually a Latinized Gaulish suffix.

>>> So ?

>>> What do you mean ?

>> He means exactly what he said: <-acus> is a Latin
>> rendering of the Gaulish suffix <-acos>.

> So you (=BMS) are just confirming what I was saying.

Not really, no: I am pointing out that the suffixes <-acus>
and <-acum> are *not* 100% Latin.

> Gaulish most probably disappeared and only Latin
> prevailed.

But it evidently did not appear without leaving traces.

Brian