Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

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

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> --- 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
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> > Can we rigorously exclude a borrowing from Gothic?
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> Definitely.
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Very interesting. The phoneme *f is relatively rare, and the correspondences for this lexeme are regular. That does not exclude borrowing from an IE source after the breakup of Proto-NEC. Other than Gothic, the source might be Armenian, since the anlaut-development was probably *p- > *pH- > *f- > *x- > h-.

Is there a way to display the other PNEC lexemes which Starostin reconstructs with the relatively rare initial *f-, to see if any other resemblances to IE lexemes jump off the page?

DGK