Re: Town, Zaun, and Celtic Dun-

At 3:37:46 PM on Friday, August 21, 2009, andythewiros
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andythewiros"
> <anjarrette@...> wrote:

[...]

>>> Ah, thought you'd never ask. Voilà:
>>> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/KuhnText/list.html
>>> Cleaning it up has been on my to-do list for some time
>>> since I discovered that many of these have cognates in
>>> Uralic and Finno-Ugric, so I think I'll use a couple of
>>> days for that.

[...]

> OK, I've been able to open it, and upon perusing some of
> the 35 roots presented, I found that some of the Celtic
> words given can easily be explained as being of Latin
> origin (e.g. palm- and par-),

Indeed, Welsh <palf> is a normal development of Latin
<palma>.

> while for 'pleht-' there is no correspondence of meaning
> between the Germanic words and the Celtic words (the
> latter all having a meaning related to 'fold', and thus
> quite conceivably loans from Latin <plicare> and
> <plectere>).

Or from English, in some cases.

Brian