From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 70695
Date: 2013-01-13
> At present I'm investigating the roots proposed for theWhat is the antecedent of 'it' here? OIr <scé> apparently
> Spey in Scotland. It's attested as 'Spe' in the twelfth
> century, by which time the area had been Gaelic-speaking
> for some centuries.
> A link with *skwijat- 'thorn' has been proposed but faces
> many challenges on both phonetic and semantic grounds.
> This might be less problematic were it cognate with the
> suffixless form apparently attested in OIr 'sce',
> but there are perhaps too many objections, with thisBrian
> rather challenging river-name.