On Mon, 31 May 2004 22:30:32 +0200, Petr Hrubi¹ ... The second option is dear to my heart because I thought of that years ago. However, there are big...
... Right. Of course. ... Hm. Well IE <ambhi> means around too. ... I recognize that line of reasoning wrt. /e/ > /i/ in the verbal prefixes from Trask. Could...
... from koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/reviews/hock.pdf " An interesting little idea suggested by Prof. Witzel concerns an alleged alternationk/zero, e.g. in the...
Oldest form of that term in Croatia are stone inscriptions from 9. cent. with readings: "EGO GASTICA HUPPANUS" and "PRISTINA IUPANO". One question: Can someone...
... despite the ... an "unattested"/"exceedingly ... It is not my idea for PIE, but I did propose it independently for Sanskrit. The low probability does not...
If Persian saka was Indo-Iranian, there must be an Indian equivalent *s^aka. Is there? If it is IE, we'd expect a form *k^e/o/akWos or k^NkWos. ... From:...
If Persian saka was Indo-Iranian, there must be an Indian equivalent *s^aka. Is there? Old Indic s'aknó:ti 'is able', s'á:kah. 'help; power' and the stuff in...
There are interesting expressions in Czech with meaning of: 1. horse: kůň [ku:n^] < OS *kon'ь < IE ??? or a loan? (often linked to kobyla and komoň, but...
... <pHalimere(:)s> undounbtedly stays for *Xvalime^rU (*xvali- imper. of *xvaliti 'praise', *me^r- (more or less) 'eminent' (the latter occurs in nomina...
... for "Mr." (pan) or "lord". (pán) ... has following possibilities to reconstruct. ... ablaut *gup > gUp- to *geup- (as in "z^upan") ... [pan^i:] "lady",...
... This is in Assyrian sources, but in Akkadian versions of Achaemenid inscriptions only iskudra, and I don't know if the latter and a/is^guzai are really...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:51:31 +0000, andelkod ... I assume these are spellings of z^upan. The HU- in the first one is strange, but seeing that there are G's in...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:26:37 +0000, tgpedersen ... Apparently not. ... What do you mean? ... Which two roots? ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal ...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:39:27 +0000, tgpedersen ... No. An early loan would have given *Vg- ... That would have given *Vr- (perhaps aran "valley" < *padan). ...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:09:30 +0200, Petr Hrubis^ ... Hbratr is interesting. Where and how is that attested? ... I don't follow. The nominative is PIE *-ih2,...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:20:18 +0000, tgpedersen ... Burrows is wrong. There is no way *pot- can be derived from *poh3-. ======================= Miguel...
OH DEAR, I CONFUSED THE NAME! I AM SORRY :-) ! There is no Vachek, but Václav Machek :-) As for hbratr and similar h-forms, Machek admits they were attested...
... Actually, you're mixing up a lot of things together as usual. Greeks sometimes used "k", sometimes "h", sometimes nothing to represent foreign 'h'-like...
... Alright. I cave on that point. I miscalculated. I suppose that must be true if I understand vowel theory properly. But still, with inheirited *i and *u,...
... We've all seen some crazy linguistic ideas floating around. I'm sure there's an article somewhere out there on 'English monovocalism'. Hmm, let me perform...
... indirectly ... account ... two ... Hebrew ... and /a/ ... There ... constraints ... straightjacket. You still appear to be missing the point that we were...
Pithecusae refers to the island of Ischia off the coast of Italy. The kerkopes themselves were originally said to be Lydian traders, transformed into monkeys...
... represent ... to the ... alternation ... this ... uvular. A ... common ... similar ... during ... I think it's ironic that when I for once quote something...
... nouns, ... You have no way of knowing that. You reconstruct /e/ > /i/ for the verbal prefix because you know 1) it's a prefix 2) in the same place a...