No Proto-Celtic?

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/5/01 10:00:41 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
eska at vtaix.cc.vt.edu writes:

> See Peter Schrijver, 'On the nature and origin of word-inital _h-_ in the
> Wuerzburg glosses', 'Eriu 48, 1997, 205-227, who makes an interesting case
> for the retention of PIE *p as h in some Early Irish forms.

-- it's interesting how rapid and brusque the restructuring of Insular Celtic
was, given the archaic state shown in the earliest sources (eg., the Ogham
inscriptions).