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

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[...]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.[...]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1919
Date January 2007
CreatorsMikhailova, Tatyana A.
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Philosophische Fakultät. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeInBook
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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