Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> 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.).
>
I'm afraid Latin isn't the only source of p- > Goidelic *kW-. For example, Middle Irish céite 'hill, eminence, open space, assembly' < Goidelic *kWantjo- 'hill', which corresponds to the substrate root *pant- I mentioned before. 

***R

That doesn't seem plausible, since P-Celtic *pant- would likely come from Celtic *kwant-

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