... Sihler says "Unexpectedly medial *-sg- > Latin -rg- in mergo "dip" and mergus "gull". Although this root *mesg exhausts the evidence, it seems sound." So...
... Dame Edna Everage speaks of her movement into adulthood as the time "when I first grew hair I could sit on." So the concept of sitting on that region is...
... My apologies to the group. My name has been used by someone else. I do not send attachments, or jokes. Kim's comment does explain an email I received ...
... oh! how amasing ! that change the data of our problem. We should consider now the IE- folk as comming from "that part of the world" (australia, if "that ...
... Anybody? ... Schrijver lists a similar root in his 'language of geminates' loanword source (which has alternations medial -K-/-KK-/-nK- for K = any stop)....
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... I think you mean in Finnish; kusi - piss virtsa - urine kuusi - spruce, or the number 6 Peter P...
... It also ocurs in Balto-Slavic, albeit with the first element distorted in various (folk-etymological?) ways: Lith. lizdas, Slavic *gne^zdo (instead of...
... Raimo Anttila has speculated that the Latin word might reflect *dnuk- with metathesis rather than laryngeal hardening, thus being closer to Germanic *xnut-...
... cis ... through ... *dnuk- ... to ... certain ... Satem ... There are a number of unexplained variants with N- ~ kN- for N=liquid in Danish, example...
... So would "people speaking French"! You're splitting more hairs and they may be used interchangeably in both English AND French despite what you may...
... Glen, the original assertion (more of an obiter dictum, but never mind) was that the French participial construction, although common in writing, is rarely...
... I supopose by "unexplained" you mean phonologically unmotivated. However, the Kn- clusters (hn-/kn-/gn-) have acquired a phonaesthetic function in...
... N=liquid ... phonaesthetic ... or ... hnossian, ... hnitu]> Danish 'gnidder'. . ... some ... Erh, OK. I think I'll rewind your argument to the observation...
... and ... distorted ... Armenian ... An n-/gn- alternation together with the *s-d- root, aha. So maybe the two phenomena belong to the same donor language,...
... you ... Kuhn observed several cases of k-/h- alternation of the same root in placenames in the Nordwestblock area, which he explained as the result of the...
... This Slavic <gn-> is completely isolated, and it doesn't alternate with <n-> within Slavic itself. Coupled with the other Slavic irregularity, *e^ instead...
At 21:23:09 on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, ... No. If they are speaking French, they are not speaking English. ... I can't speak for French, but they are not in...
... How "metropolitan"? I'm not a country bumpkin, ya know. I just sound like one :) Are Winnipeg and Vancouver cities metropolitan enough for you? I lived in...
... Why are you imposing a style of speech on me? I'm simply stating how I speak English as a native speaker and my usage is just as justified as yours. In my...
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