I cannot help you with the etymology of Romanian "varsã" ("liquid flow, spill") indicated as from lat. versare. I can tell you that Latin versare is not from...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Dec 1, 2004 10:21 am
... You forgot about (1) *k^w- > *c'W > *c^- > s- (and *g^(H)w- > *3^ > z-); (2) labiovelars before front vowels (the same development as above) When <sorrë>...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Dec 1, 2004 10:45 am
... Cancel this *k^w- solution. Jens's suggestion that the BSl. 'magpie' word is a loan, and the reconstruction *kWersnah2, are infinitely better and amount to...
35235
cybalist@yahoogroups....
Dec 1, 2004 2:01 pm
***HOW TO BEHAVE ON CYBALIST*** Moderatorial Recommendations and Rules of Proper Conduct The purpose of Cybalist is to popularise Indo-European studies and to...
35236
elmeras2000
Dec 1, 2004 3:01 pm
... Thank you for the flattering attention. I would suppose that the shared surprises go back to a time preceding the separation of Baltic and Slavic. It is my...
35237
alexandru_mg3
Dec 1, 2004 4:10 pm
... When <sorrë> was discussed here, the dicussion converged on the optimal solution: PIE *kWersnah2 (literally 'black (bird)') > *c'We:rna: > *c'Wa:rra: (-->...
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alex
altamix
Dec 1, 2004 5:15 pm
... Peter , what does "the need " means here? Alex...
35239
alexandru_mg3
Dec 1, 2004 7:47 pm
... The reconstruction "*k^orHkeh2" has the following weaknesses: 1. It does not account for the Sl. forms with sv- which match Alb. sorrë in a most...
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george knysh
gknysh
Dec 2, 2004 4:02 am
... Dear Marius, I wanted to make a few comments to a previous post of yours, but seem to have mislaid it... I just want to say that Ptolemy may not be all...
35241
alexandru_mg3
Dec 2, 2004 10:59 am
Hello George, I will argue below based only on Thermidava toponim: When Thermidava could appears near Skodra ? ... a) Ptolemaios lived between approx. 87-150...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Dec 2, 2004 11:46 am
... Why wrongly? ... Hung. szarka is rather obviously a loan from Slavic. ... What a pity ;-) ... It fits *sorka because it's the same word, borrowed from...
35243
tgpedersen
Dec 2, 2004 1:55 pm
... is ... Counterexample: Juli-acum > Jülich from Julius and the Celtic toponymic suffix -acum. So in this case the Romans followed local custom in naming....
35244
tgpedersen
Dec 2, 2004 1:57 pm
... in ... not a ... be ... common ... Substrate? Torsten...
35245
tgpedersen
Dec 2, 2004 2:04 pm
... the ... as; ... as ... Leafing through a French Etymological Dictionary in the library I came across a 'baie': from OFr. 'baer' "be open". If that is so,...
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george knysh
gknysh
Dec 2, 2004 2:12 pm
... *****GK: Why? Could it not perhaps have been a late foundation by immigrants (or expellees)after the Dacian wars?.***** ... *****GK: But let's assume that...
35247
Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Dec 2, 2004 4:12 pm
At 8:54:19 AM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, tgpedersen ... I'd say rather that they borrowed a Gaulish suffix signifying 'belonging to' or the like, Latinized...
35248
petegray
Dec 2, 2004 5:11 pm
... The original post implied, but did not state, that Romanian had "preserved" an original meaning, also found in Sanskrit. By saying "there is no need", I...
35249
tgpedersen
Dec 2, 2004 5:23 pm
... But the Roman use of <-dava> was exactly the question, which is why one can't use it as a premise as if the question had already been answered. Torsten...
35250
alexandru_mg3
Dec 2, 2004 5:27 pm
... Mind you, I don't see why Alexandru finds Roman use of <-dava> so improbable, ... Because the Probability is defined as: 'Number of expected cases / Number...
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alexandru_mg3
Dec 2, 2004 5:50 pm
Hello Piotr, ... It fits *sorka because it's the same word, borrowed from Slavic via Hungarian [...and next to Romanian] ... This is only an affirmation :...
35252
alex
altamix
Dec 2, 2004 5:52 pm
... this is what I understood too and I wanted to be sure this is what you mean. There is the very clear idea that Romanian is Latin thus everything what ...
35253
Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Dec 2, 2004 6:08 pm
At 12:22:52 PM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, tgpedersen ... I'm not. I'm agreeing with you that Alexandru's assertion is problematic but pointing out that...
35254
Miguel Carrasquer
mcvwxsnl
Dec 2, 2004 6:18 pm
Summarizing. What I gather is that the developments that led to Slavic accentuation are chronologically the following: 1) Reshuffling of PIE accentual...
35255
alex
altamix
Dec 2, 2004 6:39 pm
... So the big migration of Dacians/Carpians which yelded the actualy Albanians are all the inhabitants of only one "-dava" and late in all their history they...
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alex
altamix
Dec 2, 2004 6:54 pm
... because of the meaning. A crow is not a magpie. If one want's to link them via "black" that is something else. ... with "a" from "o"? ... any idea about...
35257
Richard Wordingham
richardwordi...
Dec 2, 2004 7:18 pm
... linguistic logic ... in ... How natural would a Romanian *horá be? It seems rather unusual to me, but I don't have a feel for the language....
35258
alex
altamix
Dec 2, 2004 7:41 pm
... it is feelt as "autochtoneus" but, regardless its origin, this does not say anything since everyone feels such words as "autochtoneus" if the words are ...
35259
Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Dec 2, 2004 8:36 pm
... As I understand it, the PSl vowel was a low, back vowel, variously described as weakly rounded and as without *distinctive* rounding; this would make it...
35260
Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Dec 2, 2004 8:42 pm
At 12:23:39 PM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, alexandru_mg3 wrote: ... Mm, no. In order to have an expected value, you have to have a probability...
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Richard Wordingham
richardwordi...
Dec 2, 2004 8:55 pm
... on "a" in ... to ... does not say ... words are ... that "mauer" is a ... strongly and ... You missed my point. You're saying that _hórã_ has a...
