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?