Re: Basque mendi 'mountain'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> > my guess is it was borrowed into P-Celtic *pant- and
> > Q-Celtic (Goidelic) *kWant-. Of course, the time of
> > borrowing must postdate Common Celtic, which it already
> > had *bando-/*bendo- 'peak top'.
>
> Like many others, I'm not convinced that P-Celtic and
> Q-Celtic are genuine subfamilies.
>

Why so?

As it's been pointed out before, Goidelic (Q-Celtic) changed p- into *kW- in early borrowings, so *pant- would have been borrowed as Goidelic *kWant- and Brythonic (P-Celtic) *pant-.