Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> > 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.
> >
> > > What are the attested words on which this NEC
> > > reconstruction is based?
> >
> > See here:
> >

http://newstar.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/cau\
c/caucet&text_number=1008&root=config

> >
> > > Can we rigorously exclude a borrowing from Gothic?
> >
> > Definitely.
>
> This may be true for all I know, but it would be instructive
> (and possibly amusing) to see what you consider a rigorous
> demonstration that borrowing from Gothic is excluded.
>

Tell me, Brian, what's the Gothic word for 'fist'?