Macc, Cailín and Céile – an Altaic element in Celtic?

  • Extract: [...]In Celtic languages (both Continental and Insular) we can find words with uncertain etymology which presumably represent loanwords from other language-families. One can see the traces of the pre-Indo-European substratum of Central and Western Europe, “an original non-Celtic/non-Germanic North West block” according to Kuhn (1961). But we may suppose that this conclusion is not sufficiently justified. This problem can have many different solutions, and we may never be in a position to resolve it definitively.[...]

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Author details:Tatyana A. Mikhailova
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19197
Publication type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Publication year:2007
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2008/07/16
RVK - Regensburg classification:EY 100
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
DDC classification:4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen
Collection(s):Universität Potsdam / Sammelwerke (nicht fortlaufend) / The Celtic Languages in Contact
License (German):License LogoKeine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
External remark:erschienen in:
The Celtic languages in contact : Papers from the workshop within the framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies, Bonn, 26-27 July 2007 / Hildegard L. C. Tristram (e.d.). - Potsdam : Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2007. - II, 335 S. : graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN 978-3-940793-07-2
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15682
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