Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@> wrote:
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> > Sorry, message was truncated. It was a question:
> > volcae, sg. volca < *volka(s) < *wlkWos ???

More likely nom./acc. pl. *-a:s (historically second declension) was adapted into Latin as first decl. (masc.) as with Belgae, Celtae.

> As I mentioned before, this etynmology makes little sense as a native Celtic word, so Delamarre links Gaulish uolco- to Latin falco: 'hawk'.
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That makes even less sense, since _falco:_ (if not of Gmc. origin, which Watkins favors but I find improbable) belongs with _falx_ 'sickle', cognate with Liguro-Latin _daculum_ (Fr. _daille_ etc.) and Sicel _zagkle:_, earlier *dagkle: (on coins Dagkleion, later Z-), both showing dissimilation from *dalklom. These require a *dH-anlaut which would appear in Celtic as *d- also.

But if Xavier has convinced himself that Uolcos means 'Hawk', it would be futile to argue with him.

DGK