6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents IX
4. Language abbreviations XI
5. Part I: Introduction
6. 1 A methodological introduction to sub-Indo-European Europe 1
7. Part II: Northeastern and Eastern Europe
8. 2 Three pre-Balto-Slavic bird names, or: A more austere take on Oštir 29
9. 3 Proto-Slavic forest tree names: Substratum or Proto-Indo-European origin? 49
10. Part III: Western and Central Europe
11. 4 Substrate alternations in Celtic 67
12. 5 A bird name suffix *-anno- in Celtic and Gallo-Romance 133
13. 6 Prehistoric layers of loanwords in Old Irish 157
14. Part IV: The Mediterranean
15. 7 A European substrate velar “suffix” 205
16. 8 Prefixes in the Sardinian substrate 215
17. 9 Substrate stratification: An argument against the unity of Pre-Greek 283
18. 10 For the nth time: The Pre-Greek νϑ-suffix revisited 301
19. Part V: Anatolia & the Caucasus
20. 11 Alternation of diphthong and monophthong in Armenian words of substrate origin 335
21. 12 Indo-European substrates: The problem of the Anatolian evidence 351
22. 13 East Caucasian perspectives on the origin of the word ‘camel’ and some notes on European substrate lexemes 379
23. List of contributors 405
24. Index of cited forms 409