In a message dated 3/17/99 5:29:48 PM, you wrote: <<According to Morris Jones, Welsh _nos_ is from *noss from the nominative *not-s < *nok{w}t-s;>> Now slow this down for me, if you would. I see three reconstructions there, but the second one is from the nominative. Is that *not-s supposed to be Celtic? Regards, Steve Long [ Yes. -rma ]