To: Multiple recipients of list WELSH-L In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Oct 94 16:11:20 EST." <199410182138.WAA11422@irisa.irisa.fr> > Mark: if I had thought about it at all I had assumed the same. What made me > ask the question was that Welsh does the same thing: scola=ysgol=escu ela, > scala=ysgol=e'chelle; scribere=ysgrifen=escribir; in fact much more so > than Spanish or French - in my Welsh dictionary there are 4 pages of similar > words, some derived from English rather than Latin (ysgum=scum, ysto^ l=stool). > However, Italian andRomanian have few to no such words. It doesn't seem to be the case for breton either. The corresponding words are skol, skeul, scrivan , and there is plenty of words starting in Sk.. or St.. a.c.