Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

At 10:29:35 AM on Thursday, March 29, 2012, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>

>> 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.

> I dunno 'bout that, leftover cold pizza tastes great.

That's still the first time. I was talking about dinner
that one's already eaten.

> 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?

Add Latin, which isn't really covered by Romance, and it
fits my recollection.

Brian