Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

W dniu 2012-03-29 18:55, Brian M. Scott pisze:

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

> > 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.

Fairly late Latin, at that. In the earliest stratum of loans, before the
sixth century, Goidelic *kW was regularly substituted for Latin /p/, as
in planta > *kWlanda > cland (and panna, pascha, purpura, Patricius >
cann, caisc, corcur, Cothriche, etc.).

Piotr