Re: request to Celtic specialists

From: george knysh
Message: 68135
Date: 2011-10-23

Would that root also be traceable in any Indo-Iranian speech? Given PEI
*ken-
From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] request to Celtic specialists

 
W dniu 2011-10-23 23:43, Brian M. Scott pisze:

> The closest I can come is the pair PCelt *ken-o 'descend
> from, come into being, be born' (OIr <cinid>), which
> Matasović derives from PIE *ken- 'begin', and PCelt
> *kenetlo- 'race, kind' (OWelsh <cenetl>, Cornish
> <kinethel>), from the same source. (I've not given all of
> the reflexes; rather, I've picked the ones most like
> 'knith'.)

Incidentally, this is one of the verb roots shared by Celtic and
_Slavic_ (rather than Proto-Bulgar). Proto-Slavic *c^In-/*c^eN- 'begin'
belongs here.

Piotr