Talk:cearc
Add topicLatest comment: 3 years ago by CecilWard
Apologies if I am not remembering correctly; should this not be *iarā with a vocalic /i/ not a consonantal /j/ ? Because the /j/ would go to dd in W and be lost before late PrimIr ? CecilWard (talk) 13:16, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
- @CecilWard: Are you talking about Welsh iâr? This is the talk page for Irish and Scottish Gaelic cearc, which has the same meaning but is unrelated to iâr. Anyway, the change of /j/ to /ð/ in Welsh never happens at the beginning of a word, only in the middle or end after another vowel, and not even always then. —Mahāgaja · talk 23:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, that explains that. I hadn’t looked up the precise environment where that Welsh change happens. I got lost with too many pages open, :-) was looking at the page for Proto-Celtic *yarā. Duuh. ;-) Thanks for your help. CecilWard (talk) 22:19, 11 May 2021 (UTC)