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[Facts] Re: Argantael and the Old Breton “hael”
Older Indo European languages have nouns and adjectives with many cases ending in -s. So words beginning with s were prone to rebracketing. -s sagilos becomes -s agilos and the h is added to restore an initial consonant. More recently rebracketing results in a nadder and a napron becoming an adder and an apron, and an eft becoming a newt.
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Of course we can't always be certain whether the initial s was lost in some languages or added in others.
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Thank you for the further explanation— I’m very happy you found this thread!!
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