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Re: John Cowan and Scott Horne on Brithenig
- To: andrew <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>
- Subject: Re: John Cowan and Scott Horne on Brithenig
- From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:59:56 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>, "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@clara.co.uk>, Andrew Smith <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>, Peter Skye <may.hawk@mindspring.com>, John Schilke <schilkej@ohsu.edu>, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@vcn.bc.ca>, Celticonlang List <celticonlang@lists.colorado.edu>, Sally Caves <scaves@frontiernet.net>, Douglas Mosier <siringa@juno.com>, Martin Bertagnon <bertagnon@datamarkets.com.ar>
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9907232222400.16012-100000@python.localnet>
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, andrew wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > I am under the impression that agur is descended from "ad hora(m)", rather
> > like Spanish's ahora. I'm not sure exactly _how_ the g gets there, but is
> > probably rather a complex situation. Like the -n on Rhufeinn, La
> > Mistarista strikes again!
> >
> hac hora(m) rather than ad hora(m) as I have posted. Compare with addyn
> 'at once'.
I was close! Simple voicing of the intervocalic -c-. Hm. Not so
mysterious after all!
Padraic.
>
> - andrew.
> --
> Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
>
> Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
> Light dies before thy uncreating word:
> Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
> And Universal Darkness buries All.
> - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.
>
>