ABSTRACT
The only Italic language of which we possess a complete vocabulary, Latin, has absorbed a whole Mediterranean lingua franca as a result of being transplanted into Mediterranean life. Hence comes its kinship with Greek, obscuring its Celtic kinship. Nevertheless, many fragments of an Italo-Celtic vocabulary remain in the Italic languages. There remain, for example, those important words, prepositions, and prefixes to verbs. 3 Latin de corresponds to Irish and Brythonic di 4; Latin cum to Irish and Brythonic com or co-(*Combroges).
