... Correction: From Thuringia to Jutland and Fyn. Not Sjælland. Not the Scandinavian peninsula. ... Evidence? Not that I'm absolutely opposed to that; some...
... The only repetition involved was your constant invoking of the beating of the dead horse simile in lieu of counter-argument, of which you had run out. And...
... constant ... *****GK: May I remind you that it is not I who "silenced" you? And that absolutely no one on the list (nearly 500 members at the time) thought...
What are the origins of Neolatin words for small: Pequeno (Portuguese), Pequen~o (SPanish), Piccolo (Italian) and Petit (French). Is there any relation between...
... I need to make a correction. *tom means either one or ten, not to count. According to M. Lionel Bender ("African Languages: An Introduction" ed. Heine and...
... (Portuguese), Pequen~o (SPanish), Piccolo (Italian) and Petit (French). Is there any relation between them. ... *picuinus, *pittittus, *picculus, maybe...
... Not ... *****GK: Shchukin and Kokowski consider Denmark to be "southern Scandinavia".***** ... beginning ... that; *****GK: I don't see how you could be...
... In Maori all syllables are open - allegedly. Yet in speech word-final consonants are sometimes heard. Everyone knows the vowel is there even if not...
... demonstrative. It is regularly used that way in Latin. But if you're talking only about German, I'll shut up. In Latin? Where? I know this language not...
I've understood your main idea on the origin of the pronominal *e/*i alternation. Further, this point attracted my attention: The same rule (deletion of *i...
... (Portuguese), ... any ... There seem to be two roots for these various Romance "small-words" but the issue is still doubtful. Italian "piccolo" is given by...
... Romanian "pic" `small quantity (of something)` assumed onomatopoeic. Romanian word "mic" (`small`) and Sicilian counterpart "nicu" (`id.`) related to a...
... Unlikely. The instrumental suffix is not added to the o-grade; and *-dHlo- is questionable -- Olsen's arguments against it (presented here by Jens some...
... An afterthought: an Iranian derivative of *sk^ed- 'to cover' (Skt. cHadati; cHada- 'cover, covering')? *sk^- would have given Iranian *s-. Just thinking...
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:33:15 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski ... What about zero-grade? *sd-tló- > Gmc. *sát-dla- (with schwa secundum and Verner) > *saddla- >...
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:19:14 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski ... Yes. The resolution of the cluster */dt/ is of course a can of worms in itself, but an eventual...
Maybe I am getting crazy, but I am too much convinced that in Proto- Albanian was characteristic, as in Illyrian, the shift not only of labiovelar /kW/ in...
... loaned ... Which ... , ... IE?) ... pre- ... the ... Good Afternoon from Bilbao. Your conjecture is All rigth. We are sure that the --Euskeras language--...
... anything similar! ... Ah! Sorry! I certainly did mean is ea id, and assumed without checking that it was from *yo. Though I note that Pokorny treats...
In the dialects of my region (Abruzzo, Italy) an adjective < *picculus is very seldom used and probably only under the influence of standard Italian....
Sciarretta, Antonio
antonio.sciarretta@...
Apr 2, 2004 8:17 am
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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:18:13 +0100, P&G ... It is possible that *yo- is derived from *i-, but the two are clearly separate in their uses (except where a ...
... Shchukin and Kokowski should buy a map. For your information, in case you don't have one either, the country of Denmark today is made up of the peninsula...
Generally Kuryl\owicz is credited with the discovery of laryngeals in the written representation of Hittite in 1927. I just found this footnote to the entry...
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