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Re: Celtic languages?

From:Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:11
--- 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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