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Re: John Cowan and Scott Horne on Brithenig
- To: andrew <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: John Cowan and Scott Horne on Brithenig
- From: Padraic Brown <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:59:56 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: John Cowan <[email protected]>, "Raymond A. Brown" <[email protected]>, Andrew Smith <[email protected]>, Peter Skye <[email protected]>, John Schilke <[email protected]>, Frank George Valoczy <[email protected]>, Celticonlang List <[email protected]>, Sally Caves <[email protected]>, Douglas Mosier <[email protected]>, Martin Bertagnon <[email protected]>
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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.
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> 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.
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