From: Rick McCallister
Message: 62891
Date: 2009-02-06
> From: gwalstawd <gwalstawd@...>My guess is that a cognate, if such exists, would be something along the lines of *calam, *callam, *calamh, *callamh, I don't know what coould have happened to the vowels, but you could try caol-, cail-, etc. But I'm just making a wild guess.
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: "CALAF" THROUGH WELSH EYES
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 9:05 AM
> Precisely. I would be most grateful for confirmation whether
> it could be a cognate, or whether there are any issues. This
> would help my research.
>
> thanks
>
> Guto
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> From: Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:01:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: "CALAF" THROUGH
> WELSH EYES
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> --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...
> net> wrote:
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> > From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@... net>
> > Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: "CALAF" THROUGH
> WELSH EYES
> > To: "Rick McCallister"
> <cybalist@... s.com>
> > Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 5:00 PM
> > At 4:50:17 PM on Thursday, February 5, 2009, Rick
> > McCallister wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > BTW: is there a related form in Gaelic such ss
> *calamh
> > > (vel sim.)?
> >
> > Not that I've been able to discover.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Then that may be a clue that is borrowed.