Res: [tied] Re: Latin Honor < ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> If memory serves, the Gaulish word is <neme:ton>, since it (or a compound) is known from a text in the Greek alphabet. The suffix is thus identical to the Latin collective <-e:tum>, and should not be used for speculation of this sort.

The word is known from the surviving Insular Celtic languages and here it certainly has the reflex of a short *e (though only visible in British Celtic, OW/OBret. -nimet, -nemet, etc.). The (single?) occurrence of the Gaulish word spelled with Greek eta hardly outweighs the later forms.

So I think PCelt. *nemeto- with two short *e's is fairly certain.

Anders