Re: park, was *pVs- for cat

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

>
> This reminds me of Old Irish fertae 'mound, tumulus' < Proto-Celtic
> *wert-ja: 'mound' (Matasović), a root also found in Middle Welsh
> gwerthyr 'fort' < *wert-ro- and gweryd 'earth, soil, grave' < *wereto-,
> derived from PIE *Hwer- 'to cover, to close' with a
> suffix *-t- (e.g. Sanskrit vºrti- 'surrounding, covering; hedge,
> fence'). Pokorny himself goes to the point of reconstructing a PIE form
> *wortom 'door'.
>
> Thus it would safer to place Gaulish *verenna: along with Old Irish
> ferenn < *werono- and feronn, ferann < *werono- as derivated from PIE
> *Hwer-. Clearly, this etymology can't explain neither the Wanderwort
> *waranda: nor Proto-Celtic *warra: 'post, prop', which would require a
> different (if any) PIE etymology.
>

IMHO *waranda: is a Wanderwort ultimately derived from PIE *Hwer-.