... I ... of ... I've been assuming the same up to now. That's what students are taught here in Lithuania, that's what is stated in all the treatments of...
... in, but ... is the ... Creoles ... what is a ... pidgin, ... Elite breakdown. The loss of the class that writes letters to the editor, checks other...
... irregularities in ... analogies and ... with "thunk" "praught" ... Sorry for my imprecise wording. What I meant is that conservative forms survive for...
... Of course, Romans didn't write W. But their V stood for [v], [u], and [w]? Three sounds graphically represented by one font. ... actually AVE CAESAR...
Of Grimm and Rask, Rask at least had the priority of the Darwinian idea of languages developing and branching instead of being fixed created objects. Except...
... I was under the impression that it stood for [u] and [w], the latter eventually becoming [B] and [v] in suitable contexts. ... Medieval <u> and <v> were...
... That may be so but the word order of Mandarin has no bearing on my proposed word order of a Mid IE. The idea from Mandarin I took was concerning marking...
... Yes, true. But English has a very strict word order out of necessity since it has no case endings as Finnish does. Even so, Finnish as well as all...
... Before somebody needlessly corrects me because of my imprecise language, technically English does still have case endings (eg: John's, whom, etc) but...
At 1:36:55 PM on Thursday, May 1, 2003, Piotr Gasiorowski ... Yep. Very common in <Wulf-> names, e.g., <Eudo Wluiet> 1199 from <Wulfgéat>, <Will. Wlwrith>...
is there a common PIE/Ie denomination for cardinal points? It is said that for instance "north" in the Romance is from English. English north: O.E. norð, from...
... wait a moment. you said *ner-1 ? can it be an extended semantism in words which means "dark" ? ( I think at a relation north=dark= cold) I am not sure if...
On Thu, 01 May 2003 00:52:38 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci ... The Indo-Iranian root is actually *ap- (Skt. a:p-, ap-, Av. a:fs^, ap-). A root *ab- does seem to...
In a message dated 5/1/2003 11:51:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Having a preferred word order when you don't need one gives highly inflected languages so...
On Thu, 01 May 2003 08:32:52 +0200, alex_lycos <altamix@...> ... Indonesia was Islamized from the 13th - 15th c.by the influence of non-Arabic speaking...
... root ... etc.) ... ************ Yes, but *ab-, as Celtic proves it, is just, I guess, a voiced variant form. In Albanian, its at most common that the...
On Thu, 01 May 2003 02:52:13 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton" ... No, that it isn't. It seems to be correct, though. /w-/ > /g(w)-/ is in itself rather commonplace....
... I don't know the exact stages in its evolution, but I imagine it went something like this. 'V' is a labio- dental approximant (a form of 'rounding') with...
... hmmm.. mountain? looks interesting "a aburca"=to climb up explained by dex cf. "urca"= to climb up expl. as proably from Latin *oricare ( maybe from...
On Thu, 01 May 2003 22:39:32 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci ... With voicing caused by the suffix *-Hon-, which is absent from avull. PIE *p, or in fact any PIE...
... * ... . ... to- ... , ... with ... meanings. ... There are also in Albanian verb ul 'to wet', besides qull < q- +ull 'to over wet, to soak' and nyll < n +...
The finnish (uralic?) partitive ending is -ta/ta (or -a/ä that derives from tä/tä) The partitive case is actually an old ablative that has taken on new ...
On Fri, 02 May 2003 00:51:05 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci ... But the root in question is *h2auh1-, not *h1euh2-. This root *h2auh1- gives Welsh awel "wind,...
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