Sunday, July 17, 2011

Is there really a hypothesis that Irish Gaelic came from southern France?

It seems that some people think that Gaelic may have originated as a Celtiberian dialect from southwest France. I'm not sure if anyone actually thinks this (it may be my imagination), but if this is in fact a thing, shouldn't there be a significant number of Basque loanwords in Irish (like, say, *sceart for "left")?

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