Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

At 9:07:55 PM on Monday, February 25, 2013, dgkilday57
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>> If falco were of Germanic origin, it would be from a word
>> for "gray", right? 

> I believe that is Watkins' view, but I do not have the
> AHD with me.

Pretty much: it's in the entry for *pel- 'pale' as
'probably' from *pel-ko. He isn't sure whether Gmc.
borrowed from Late Latin or vice versa.

Brian