Basque <ibili>

[Larry Trask]

Rick Mc Callister writes:

>       There's the possibility that Lusitanian may have been non-Celtic
>  and to get from Central Europe to W. Iberia, it presumedly would have been
>  in contact with Basque, correct?

Presumably, yes, though not necessarily for any great length of time.

>       True, not too much is known about Lusitanian and it does seem
>  similar to Celtic and Italic

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk