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Zur Urgeschichte der Kelten und Illyrier. By Julius Pokorny Pp. 222. Halle a. Saale: Max Niemeyer. 1938. RM. 12.
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page no 306 note 1 Pittioni, by confusing culture and language, gets himself into a complete tangle about the Celts (p. 219 f). There is a similar confusion in Pokorny's statement (p, 30) that the Celts (die Kelten) originated in an amalgam of the urnfield culture with the tumulus culture. By ‘ Celts ’ here he means perhaps‘ the culture of the Celts of the Hallstatt period ’
page no 308 note 1 Following up Pokorny's argument we deduce that his hypothetical British Goidels adopted p into their language as the result of contact with their hypothetical Illyrian predecessors ; yet, strange to say, those British Goidels who (as he supposes) conquered Ireland from the Illyrians remained unable to pronounce p, and turned this very name Pretani (Priteni) into Qriteni.
page no 308 note 2 So too our own Domhnall (Celtic *Dubnovalos), which has much the same meaning as Dubnorix.
page no 308 note 3 Compare the cognate Irish deity-name Creidne, and the P-Celtic tribal names Priteni, Paris it.