Re[2]: [tied] Laryngeal h4

At 1:38:39 PM on Saturday, November 8, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- On Sat, 11/8/08, Arnaud Fournet
> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

[...]

>> An example is *gwor mountain which I consider is a
>> derivative of *gab-al "mountain"
>> Root *gab > PIE *gw-or
>> Cf. Archaic PIE form in French Cevennes < kab-anna
>> "mountain".

> I've seen *kab- associated with "horn" as with various
> words for "goats" and for "owls", including French chouan.
> I've never sen the Cévennes, but if they are craggy,
> "horn" may apply

<Cévennes> appears as <Cebenna> in Caesar and <Kemmenon
oros> in Strabo; Dauzat, Deslandes, and Rostaing derive
it from Gaulish, from a Celtic root <cem-, ceb-> 'back,
ridge' and a suffix <-enna>, on what grounds I don't know.
The same root is assigned to <Cemet (Mont)>.

Brian