Re: Bear (Was: HORSA vs. EXWA)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" wrote:

>> More to
>> the point, Pokorny has -rkt- > -rt- for Old Irish phonology. At
>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/4406 , it's
>> claimed that -rkt- > -rt- is Common Celtic.

> But you can't use the word 'bear' as an evidence of such a
> development,
> as this involves *circularity* (that is, a self-explaining or
> tautological proposition)!

Pokorny doesn't. He gives the rule to explain the simplification -rg#t- > -rt- in Old Irish inflection.

Richard.