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.[...]
Author details: | Tatyana A. Mikhailova |
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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): | Keine 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 --> bestellen |