From: Tavi
Message: 71022
Date: 2013-03-03
>This is likely from some reflex of Celtic *wowilano- 'seagull' (Irish faoileann, Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan). Source: "A Checklist of Proto-Celtic Lexical Items" by Alan Ward (1982, 1986).
> Linguistics is not a game of narcissistic pronouncements. Guesses require solid evidence. Trask only made pronouncements when he believed the evidence was solid enough for him.
> He was not stubborn. I managed to convince him that gavirai was a congener of Spanish gavilán, from some Romance source.
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