Re: Oedipus

At 4:43:30 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

[...]

> I've published his list of words in p-, from the first
> article (none from the rest), which I have supplemented
> with words in p- from Celtic languages, traditionally
> ascribed to loans from English (but why do they occur in
> Breton then, and besides, having p- they are loans in
> Germanic themselves, so why not directly from some common
> substrate?). Brian and Chris are vehemently opposed to
> that idea.

In fact my principal stated objection at the time was to the
incompetent (and very uncritical) manner in which the list
was put together. As for the explanations themselves, I
don't expect you to accept straightforward borrowing from
an immediate neighbor if you can possibly find a way to
appeal to a long-dead substrate.

Brian