Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

W dniu 2012-03-28 03:38, Brian M. Scott pisze:

> The British Pennines only got their name around 1747, from
> Charles Julius Bertram, the compiler of the forgery _De Situ
> Britanniae_ attributed to Richard of Cirencester. The Alpes
> Pennines in Switzerland, on the other hand, really do derive
> from Celtic *penno- 'a mountain summit; a head; a hill; an
> end', PCelt. *kWendo- 'head' (cf. OIr <cenn> 'head').

It could be added that any *really* old (pre-Celtic) substratal word in
*p- would have lost its initial at an early date. The mountain names in
question are specifically Gallo-Brittonic, not even common Celtic.

Piotr