Re: Weekly Vocab 30 in Kash

Padraic Brown wrote:

> --- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> > Skipping blithely over No.29, which will appear
> > in due course..........
> >
> > 1. friend-- karem, karenji (karende if sex is
> > involved)-- karem etc. is
> > gender-neutral, there are gender-specific words
> > too wth same connotations.)
>
> A curious similarity! Any conscious use of the
> Celtic root car- here?
>
Not unless the Celts (admittedly a clever lot) engaged in space
travel......:-))))  Seriously, that's one language family I've never raided.

Hmm-- now I'm recalling a SF novel of some 20 yrs ago that involved some
spacefarers in a far prehistoric period.  They were responsible, among other
things, for the destruction of the land bridge across the Straits of
Gibraltar and the formation of the modern
Mediterranean. The author gave them a definite Celtic cast-- in fact their
"national song" (which was printed in an appendix) sounded suspiciously like
that old favorite "Danny Boy".  That, I thought, was carrying things a bit
far..........