From: dgkilday57
Message: 69563
Date: 2012-05-10
>Enough time already. Perhaps this represents *bHr.h1-teh2- formed from the set.-root observed in Grk. <pheretron>, Skt. <bharitram>, Lat. <feretrum> 'bier, litter, stretcher'. The force of *-h1 as a root-extension is not immediately obvious. Possibly it signifies 'to completion, to the end'. A born child has been carried to the end of child-bearing (i.e. birth), and a dead person is carried on the bier to his final resting-place. Thus *bHer- 'to carry', *bHerh1- 'to carry to the end'. Cf. *kel- 'to strike, hew', *kelh1- 'to strike (decisively)'.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@> wrote:
> >
> > 2012/5/4, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@>:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > [DGK:]
> > > No, my theory explains *bartis as a toponomastic loanword from Ligurian to
> > > Celtic, with no phonological criteria applied by the borrowers. Its
> > > retention is, pardon the root, fortuitous. Kilday finally gets some good
> > > luck!
> >
> > Bhrihskwobhloukstroy:
> > So, where do Yo[u] suggest Ir. bairt comes from? To my limited
> > knowledge, there's no place-name whose stem is simple *Barti-s
>
> We should give the Celticists here some time to comment on this hapax legomenon.