Zompist Bboard Again

Why does the word for eight come from Proto-Brythonic, if this is a Goidelic language?

Unfortunately not; but I've read grammar of Calabrian Greek. Some dialects even add an epenthetic vowel after -s.

I planned to make a Hellenic conlang spoken in coastal Sicily and Naples (specifically, Amalfi coast) but abandoned later. I just wanted to add some flavor of Sicilian (and Neapolitan) into a descendant of Koine with heavy Doric influence. I used Tsakonian as reference, and drop original final conso...

Was the "China" meaning more common before the Xinhai Revolution? I feel that it's always been "The world as far as the speaker/writer is concerned" or just "The (known) world". As the ancient Chinese rarely concern themselves with matters beyond the border, it can be ...