@davidstifter.bsky.social @jorgenstein.bsky.social A question to ask, does anyone you know have any clue on where the Brittonic -ss- in W llafasu "to dare" came from? Seems the consensus is that it is related to OIr. ro-laimethar but the suffixation eludes me.

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Do you have any opinion on the etymology of indéoin "anvil"? Mahagaja wrote this a few years ago but I would like some double-checking.

As of today, I have now been promoted to an administrator on the English Wiktionary!

I'm chuckling at the fact that Pitts (2024) reconstructs numerous Proto-Italic perfect plural stems... just to account for why they did NOT actually survive in attested Italic.

(Article is named "Long-Vowel Perfects and the Aorist-Perfect Merger in Italic")

Every time a Celticist needs to name the Celtic subfamily of Gaulish + Lepontic + Insular, a new name is invented:

McCone: Gallo-Insular Celtic
Eska: Nuclear Celtic
@davidstifter.bsky.social: Core Celtic
@jorgenstein.bsky.social: North Celtic
Koch: Gallo-Brythonic-Goidelic

Cognates of the day!

English adze and Hittite atešša "axe, hatchet" < PIE *Hodh-es-

This correspondence is notorious for how isolated the English word is: it is not found in any other Germanic language, let alone in any other Indo-European language other than Hittite!

False cognates of the day:

Cornish -o (3sg. m. conjugated preposition suffix) and Welsh -o (3sg. m. conjugated preposition suffix).

According to Schrijver, the Cornish suffix is from *sosom (reduplicated acc. sg. of *so) while the Welsh one is from *audom "thence" (used as 3sg m. of *au).

@mddarling547.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social Was looking at another DBSt book chapter, I could not cringe any faster:

(*atakī very obviously cannot yield OIr. adaig)

A Breton reference? In my Trans-Himalayan?

I love how "corundum" is spelled like a Latin word even though it has no Latin origin at all.

@mweissohcgl.bsky.social My face when I find out that Italicists wildly disagree on what the second vowel of superlative -issimus originally was:

Hello @davidstifter.bsky.social, what words does Lambert have in mind in his reading here: archeologie.orleans-metropole.fr/musee-virtue... (link has both a photo of the tablet and Lambert's reading).

More specifically uanderonado, pisslon atlon atemiston, and canti pissiantas.

Hi @davidstifter.bsky.social, do you know where the velar suffix in cathair, gen. cathrach comes from? No etymology I've seen (Holmer & Schrijver's *kastrixs < Lat. castrum, EDPC's comparison to OE. heaþor) explains what the velar suffix -ik- is doing.

@davidstifter.bsky.social @jorgenstein.bsky.social EDPC confusing me again. Did a simplex, uncompounded *genos (original EDPC had s-stem but his corrigenda changed to o-stem) exist in Celtic? I was wondering why can't *genan (whence OIr. gein "birth") work for Breton.

Took a while for the amount of Proto-Celtic Wiktionary entries to pass 1500, but we're there!

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