--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
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> Celtic *nantu- 'valley, brook'
> Uralic *lamti 'low land'
> NEC *tts^HwemV 'liquid' (where s^ represents a voiceless lateral fricative)
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Celtic is
*nantu-/*nanto- and Uralic is
*lamte 'low, lowland'.
On the other hand, the NEC protoform corresponds to a Vasco-Caucasian substrate root found in Latin
la:ma 'puddle, swamp' as well as in toponymy, e.g. the Messapian river name
Láme:tos (Bruttium), with a suffix much alike Celtic and Uralic.