Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

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

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> > A similar case would be IE *penkWe- '5' ~ NEC *fimk?wV 'fist'. If I'm not mistaken, Petr suggested that Starostin's f should be replaced by X\W or XW.
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> What are the attested words on which this NEC reconstruction is based?
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See here: http://newstar.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/cauc/caucet&text_number=1008&root=config

> Can we rigorously exclude a borrowing from Gothic?
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Definitely.