Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 69100
Date: 2012-03-29



From: Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>
To: Torsten <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

 
At 5:07:45 AM on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Torsten wrote:

> Irish is full of words in p-.

OIr has a very modest number of words in <p->, most of which
are rather obvious borrowings.

We've been through this before. Like one's dinner, it's not
better the second time around.

Brian
 
****R
I dunno 'bout that, leftover cold pizza tastes great.
BUT as I remember, the Gaelic p- and -p- words either come from Germanic, Romance and P-Celtic;
or are expressive forms either from native /b/
or wholly made up.
Is that about right?