Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> > 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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> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/69567
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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',
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Possible, but not sure.

> But if Xavier has convinced himself that Uolcos means 'Hawk', it would be futile to argue with him.
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Why don't you write him an e-mail?