Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 69108
Date: 2012-03-29

At 4:27:30 PM on Thursday, March 29, 2012, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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.).

Oh, yes; but there are still some later borrowings from
Latin like <póc> 'a kiss', from Latin <pax, pac->.

Brian