Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 70971
Date: 2013-02-22

Sorry, message was truncated. It was a question:
volcae, sg. volca < *volka(s) < *wlkWos ???


De: Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>
Para: "cybalist@yahoogroups.com" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 22 de Fevereiro de 2013 11:04
Assunto: Re: [tied] Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

 


De: Tavi <oalexandre@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 22 de Fevereiro de 2013 8:43
Assunto: Re: [tied] Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

 
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" wrote:
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> > Many years ago Miguel suggested that the tribal name Volcae meant 'Wolves'. That may well be, if they belonged to the Illyro-Lusitanian branch and used the *wl.kWo- form. They were associated with the Silva Hercy:nia, and if Proto-Celtic borrowed Volcan *Perku:nia: as *Ferku:nia:, that would explain the lack of *p...kW assimilation.
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volcae, sg. volca < *volka(s) < *wlkWos