Reconstruction talk:Proto-Celtic/gyemos

Reconstruction

@Victar All the descendants seem to reflect *gyamos instead. What evidence is there for reconstructing the -e- here? —CodeCat 19:41, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Matasovic claims "The reconstruction of PCelt. *gyemo- is based on the assumption (Schrijver) that *gye- > *gya- in British and Gaulish." --Victar (talk) 20:32, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

That seems a bit ad hoc. Are there any other examples of this change, and also examples in languages where the change didn't happen? Also, it seems to have happened in Irish too. —CodeCat 20:37, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Schrijver cites several examples, including Middle Welsh ai (“ice”), and has a whole section dedicated to the subject. --Victar (talk) 20:58, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, that's very enlightening. I'm curious why Old Irish gam and aig have an a regardless, though. —CodeCat 21:25, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Sure thing. Yeah, I'm not certain. It may be that it was an ongoing shift in PCelt, affecting some words and not others. --Victar (talk) 22:10, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Gaulish description

@Victar I did not add that description to Gaulish. I only added a source and the Proto-Brythonic term request, anything else was here before me. 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (talk) 04:16, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Not even worth a ping about. --{{victar|talk}} 05:13, 5 September 2019 (UTC)