Re: Lat. gladius and Sorothaptic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:

>
> > As I mentioned before, Coromines' "Sorothaptic" is roughly the same
> > language than Villar's "Italoid" and DGK's "Illyro-Lusitanian". It's
> > located somewhere between Baltic and Italic in the IE dialectal cloud.
>
> Yes, I quite well knew that; still it's not clear to me whether */k/ >
> /g/ is allegedly Sorothaptic or else, according to Corominas
>

Matasovic' thinks Latin gladius could be inherited, with *kl- > gl- as in glo:ria < *klowesja:. He reconstructs a Celtic protoform *kladiwo- on the basis of Old Irish claideb, with the Brittonic forms being loanwords from Goidelic. A direct loanword from Gaulish into Latin can be also be dismissed.