... I am trying to pick this thread up in the middle. so please bear wtih me. What are the rules for semi-vowel clusters? In particular, how do we tell i:...
... *****GK: Ammianus Marcellinus further tells us that the Carpi were settled in Pannonia by Diocletian (28.1.5: Carporum, quos antiquis excitos sedibus ...
You are confirming the very point I made: Sanskrit is monovocalic in exactly the same sense as PIE is sometimes said to be. Also PIE has its intricate set of...
Hi Rob, ... should've ... Yes, that's almost what I was trying to say. I think tone played a role in the forming of language. More than it does now. But it...
... From: Rob To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view ... before Ablaut, and thus never...
george knysh wrote: . ... Amianus Marcelinus speaks about a part of the carps who settled in Panonia. Later there are mentioned the Carpo-dacians ( was this a ...
... actually I guess "thith" has nothing to do with *seuH2 but this word is in the same family with Alb. "thithė", German "Zitze", English "titt", Romanian...
... I got a bit irritated by the explanation trough "*k^" and "*s" just because of some unconcordances between the Albanian and Romanian words. For instance: ...
Perhaps, You have right, because in Albanian exists also compound thithėlopė 'toad', natterjack, goatsucker'?! Konushevci ... also ... loosing ... of ... to ...
I am not only irritated, but also ashamed, repeted over and over again the same things. For someone who know a little bit Albanian or who read with little care...
... It seems you missundeerstood my message. I did not wondered about any Albanian "f" since you showed this. I wondered about _romanian_ "f" in this case....
I think that it is illustrative example of expressive plural (cf. luftime, krime, shkrime, etc.) of the denominal therrinj, today not active (cf. grinj `to...
... OK, I got stoped here by etymology of the word. Which is in your opinion the root where from the word "thėrrime" derive from? Is there a family or...
... This is a necessary part of the game, Eva. When we go beyond attested evidence to reconstructed forms, we have to guess what might best have explained...
... *****GK: I'm actually not at all certain that the "Carpodacians" of Zosimos/Eunapius were either Carpi or Dacians. The term might have been used with...
... Well I agree with you abouth being a difference, but I have difficulties in "translating" mentaly the expresion "historical Dacians". On another hand if...
Hi Alex, ... So is Dacian a Thracian still considered a Thracian language or derived from the same IE branch as Thracian or is it a seperate IE branch? ...
... Yes, you did... sorta. However, I guess I think that PIE was even less monovocalic than you think. I do know that there is an annoying camp of people that...
... its ... of ... So we ... <jer@c...> ... PIE. ... with ... The ... *n&1tr- ... go so ... phonemes. ... each ... real ... Did these contrasts carry much...
... Yes, the Hittite ntr.pl. forms come from somewhere... but why the "dual" per se? We know that *-x (*-h2) is used in a collective, non-singular sense,...
... I profite of this passage for ... *****GK: The best source for (and interpretation of) "Attilanic" names known to me is Otto Maenchen-Helfen's "The World...
... But why? Sanskrit was "monovocalic" in the sense discussed here. Re-read Jens' post to pieml at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pieml/message/406 David...
Does the contrast of [j] and [i] ever have much functional yield? The constrasts in English, e.g. <ear> via slurred <you>, are much more a matter of stress...
