Re: Celtic languages?

--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
 >
> > In the texts we have, we have '-cue' meaning
> 'and'.  We also have */p/
> > being lost  - 'uer' for Latin 'super'.
>
> The loss of IE /p/ is common to both Q and P
> 'Celts'. If _uer_ is cognate
> with Latin _super_ we also have a loss of /s/.
> That's very slight evidence.

Well, actually, it's probably a case of that so-called
IE phenomena "moveable-s"

The word may have been:
  *s-uperi
  *uperi

 O.E       ofer
 Sanskrit  upari
 Celtic    uer > maybe: O. Irish  for 'on'
 Greek     hyper  (from *super(i))
 Latin     super

Elliott


		
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