... /a/ just is. Whereas /e~o~zero/ correlates with certain grammatical forms (eg /o/ in causatives, nouns). The alternation may have been originally ...
... Thanks for the examples. We can quibble over whether this makes /a/ "fully capable" of disappearing. It certainly does not seem to be as regular and ...
... Watch English English for the next few years. People under a certain age in most of England already say /?/ for <t>. This is (a) a recent change (b) a ...
Anyone know how I can say "Hello, leave your voice (or message) after the tone (or sound). Goodbye" in Old English/Anglo- Saxon? It's for my phone message. ...
... Vox Graeca refers to two grammarians (well, all right, one grammarian and Plato) who describe what seems to be a trilled, alveolar sound. (so not guttural...
... Attic reduplication in the perfect is much easier to explain if we allow HR-e-HR, despite s-est-. I know this is not universally accepted, but something...
In article <bvgiko+d6gh@eGroups.com> elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote: . . . ... Does this evidence of voicedness affect the glottalic hypothesis or would...
What about "leave your voice after the tone"? I suggest Læ:f þi:n æ:rende æfter þæ:m swe:gdropan /"læ:f Ti:n "æ:'rende "æft&r Tæ:m "swe:j'dropan/ /T/...
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 06:37:23 -0500 (EST), "Brent J. Ermlick" ... The various glottalic proposals affect the voicedness and laryngeal settings of the PIE stops....
... nothing to do ... stumbled ... No, I deliberately looked for it to check if my memory was right. I owe some of my insight to Eric Hamp who used this...
... glottalic hypothesis ... redefined ... I suppose it would affect it very little, for the actual phonetic change must be pre-Proto-Indo-European anyway,...
Hello Piotr, Please help me again with some arguments regarding the proposed timeframes presented by you in Albanian (1) and (3) : 1) in Albanian (1) You wrote...
... would ... Danish and Greenlandic (which are of course not related) both lack voiced stops, but do have voiced fricatives. In my opinion the insight into...
... <stumbrs> 'aurochs'? No, but I believe the word is precisely another instance of the observed Baltic rendition of a prestage of the Slavic sibilants from ...
did the word "religion" appeared just after the Christian faith became the official religion of Roman Empire or is this word mentioned some time before? I...
... became the ... time ... unity with the ... from the ... the Roman ... ********* You may think of re-ligion as something to do with binding, and if so, you...
... Hmm. what is funny is that to bind appear here to have some relation with to choise( legare-elligere). To re-choise could be re-elligere. Maybe the ...
Well, Lewis and Short is 125 years old this year, iirc - my copy is currently inaccessible (as is Munro's commentary on Lucretius), and there is now a new OLD,...
... from ... favour ... Thank you for the support (if I get you right). It would be interesting to examine early borrowings from Slavic into Baltic and other...
... Russia? ( Il'za, Ilza ?) No, it isn't. If one had named his daughter <El'za> it would have sounded very excentric. On the other hand, a certain percent of ...
But I found this name in a checklist of Russian names: Evelina Edit Edita Eleonora Ella El'vira El'za El'mira Emiliya Emma Era Erna Ernestina Esfir' Joao SL ...
... For the most part it's simply a pet form of <Elisabeth> in origin. <Else> does appear as the name of a magic-wielding female in Wolfdietrich, and there's...
... . . . ... Yes, but is the new evidence that Jens mentioned incompatible with any of the various proposals? I've seen, for instance, a suggestion that the...
... Well, if one defines "a Russian name" as "a name at least once registered on the Russian territory / beared by a Russian-speaking person" -- why not? (By...
I know it's not a Russian name, I'm just asking if it is used by Russians, even rarely. ... From: Sergejus Tarasovas To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,...
... And why do you feel that there was no /a~o~zero/? ... It seems like your entire basis for seperating *e and *o on the one hand and *a on the other is...