3090.
Hamp
(Eric P.): Varia: 47. OIr.
bí
‘threshold’.
In
ÉtC 27
(1990), pp. 183–184.
Proposes that it belongs to a homogeneous set of Proto-Indo-European terms referring to house construction. Cf. C.
Watkins
,
in
Ériu 28 (1978), pp. 155-160.
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