Now 18th-century European scholars supposed that the Hungarians were a Slavic or Turkic people. On _linguistic_ grounds (especially as regards the occurrence...
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george knysh
gknysh
Mar 1, 2002 8:55 am
... *****GK: There is no record of Tyragetae in the period prior to 800 BC and none in Herodotus. He only knows of Tyritae who were Greeks. You can postulate...
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george knysh
gknysh
Mar 1, 2002 10:00 am
Rex wrote earlier: "Thracian tribal groups..both banks of the Danube. They also incorporate a river name..North of the Danube..listed as Thracian by H." ...
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tgpedersen
Mar 1, 2002 11:59 am
... were a Slavic or Turkic people. On _linguistic_ grounds (especially as regards the occurrence of characteristic onomastic elements), the Balkan Moesians...
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tgpedersen
Mar 1, 2002 12:35 pm
... with Goth. hilm-s "helmet" etc. In other words Thracian z- should be cognate with PIE *k. Perhaps Thracian voiced initial <s> like German (at least in some...
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Pavel Adamek
pavel.adamek@...
Mar 1, 2002 2:53 pm
Where can be found lists of PIE roots? I mean something like this: http://bartleby.com/61/IEroots.html The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language...
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indravayu
Mar 1, 2002 3:02 pm
... Cybalist has in its Files section a collection of Pokorny's roots (albeit, with slightly different orthography than IEW): ...
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tgpedersen
Mar 1, 2002 3:14 pm
... Zalmoxis ... be ... German ... careful ... even ... <zalmos> ... and ... particular ... and ... or ... Thank you Pavel! This is the "cover" root: ...
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Danny Wier
dawier
Mar 1, 2002 6:34 pm
... ~DaW~ http://www.geocities.com/dawier ... Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! ... There is one each of an English-PIE...
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dawier
Mar 1, 2002 6:34 pm
Since I got Windows XP a while ago, I've discovered lots of fonts, most of them available for free from Microsoft (I forgot where I found them though -- many...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Mar 1, 2002 11:24 pm
... From: tgpedersen To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: [tied] Re: Scythians, Zoroastrians, etc. ... and /z/ to words...
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David Russell Watson
wtsdv
Mar 1, 2002 11:35 pm
This is your funniest one to date! (-: David...
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caraculiambro
Mar 2, 2002 1:05 am
... Do you mean that both a helmet and a skin may cover or protect something so *xelma- and <zalmo-> must be related? The notion of 'covering, concealing,...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Mar 2, 2002 1:19 am
I agree. For more info on the Magi who went mad because there were no beavers they could shave, enter the title of this thread into your search engine. BTW....
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kalyan97
Mar 2, 2002 2:11 am
bhaga = "dispenser" , gracious lord , patron (applied to gods , esp. to Savitr.) R.gveda; Skt. lexicon adds: Zd. {bagha} = Old Pers. {baga} ; Gk.Slav. {bogu} ,...
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Andrei Markine
markineandrey
Mar 2, 2002 4:32 am
... Was it [zd] or [dz]?...
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wtsdv
Mar 2, 2002 6:15 am
... I've been wondering about this also. My Greek Grammar gives [zd] as the value of zeta, but much of what I read in I.E. studies seems to imply that it was...
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vishalsagarwal
Mar 2, 2002 7:10 am
It might also interest list members to know that Beavers are attested archaeological at Harappan sites (e.g. Amri in Sindh, see the French excavation report)...
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wtsdv
Mar 2, 2002 7:36 am
... Not at all Torsten. It's my understanding that men have been pursuing beaver for a very long time, and not just for wearing on the head. As I understand...
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Danny Wier
dawier
Mar 2, 2002 7:45 am
AAAARGH!!!! The HTML got garbled! Let's try this again.... ... There is one each of an English-PIE and a PIE-English dictionary based on Bird's summary of...
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tycho137
Mar 2, 2002 7:46 am
Here's a link with the full Pokorny dictionary online: http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/ (Leiden University, Holland) However, when I tried that site a few minutes...
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tgpedersen
Mar 2, 2002 10:23 am
... of zeta or sigma to represent foreign /z/, but there's no real evidence of s-voicing in Thracian. ... Serme:/Sermius < *ser-mo- 'current, flow') contain...
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tgpedersen
Mar 2, 2002 10:38 am
... itself, ... may ... beaver ... pointed- ... can't ... You might find mercury poisoning funny, but I can assure you there is nothing funny about it. It...
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P&G
petegray
Mar 2, 2002 10:52 am
... PIE cannot be more centum-like or more satem-like. Both groups lose a distinction that we think existed in PIE, ending up with a two-way contrast where...
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P&G
petegray
Mar 2, 2002 10:52 am
... This has always puzzled me! What, precisely, is a "voiced aspirate"? That seems to me a contradiction in terms. Is some kind of voiced pharyngeal or ...
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tgpedersen
Mar 2, 2002 10:53 am
... of ... comparing ... "Skin" is not derived, see below. ... matches. ... (probably ... , ... Why "unrelated"? To magical thinking "skin" is a detachable...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Mar 2, 2002 1:03 pm
In phonetic terms, it is a breathy-voiced glottal approximant (or "glide"). It is often called half-voiced -- the sort of thing many English-speakers use as...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Mar 2, 2002 1:17 pm
... From: tgpedersen To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: [tied] Re: Scythians, Zoroastrians, etc. ... (probably ... ,...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Mar 2, 2002 4:12 pm
Things are not always as simple as we would like them to be. There is a lot of evidence that the biphonemic value of zeta was real enough. (1) For the purpose...
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kalyan97
Mar 2, 2002 4:44 pm
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=975770 Analysing compressed data leads to impressive results in linguistics ZIPPING, as any computer...
