... "ice" ... in ... <Inn> ... I believe Vennemann mentions it too. ... Oops. ... Yes, according to Vennemann, but he makes a good case for it; specifically...
35709
tgpedersen
Dec 29, 2004 9:34 am
... place ... Pow! That was the end of that baloon. Damn! ... To get at least something out of my expedition, let me propose that Romance bass- "low" reflects...
35710
g
tolgs001
Dec 29, 2004 10:22 am
... So stimmt das nicht. In this respect, the Romanian bolshevic satrapy did by no means invent the wheel. After a brief while, when it tried to induce the...
35711
willemvermeer
Dec 29, 2004 1:06 pm
... enlightening stuff I'm grateful for. ... access on the markets of printed matter and ... before. Of ... in ... enjoys ... copies ... in ... of ... I...
35712
willemvermeer
Dec 29, 2004 1:39 pm
I can't refrain from communicating to all of you the magic the wonderful neologism IJzelman conveys to this native carrier of Dutch. IJzel is the relatively...
35713
Petusek
hrubisp
Dec 29, 2004 2:34 pm
In a dialect of Moravian Czech which is also called Walachian, there are non-Slavic words (like "ogar" = "a boy", clearly, this can't be Czech as our "g"...
35714
g
tolgs001
Dec 29, 2004 2:42 pm
... Was it as a compliment or reproachful? (In the latter case, it must have happened in the southern half of the country. :^)) ... Well, but if the accent is...
35715
g
tolgs001
Dec 29, 2004 3:10 pm
Is there any probability whatsoever that Greek <Hristugena> "Christ's birth" could be transformed to become <Crăciun>? (according to Vulgolat. and Protorum....
35716
alex
altamix
Dec 29, 2004 3:26 pm
... I very doubt. Alex -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date:...
35717
elmeras2000
Dec 29, 2004 3:50 pm
... the ... You should look up <íos>, since the /s/ is not palatal, a fact reflecting the old back vowel of the etymon *i:ssu < *pe:dsu. Jens...
35718
Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Dec 29, 2004 7:07 pm
At 4:34:23 AM on Wednesday, December 29, 2004, tgpedersen wrote: [...] ... Wrong word. It's /i:/, not /i/, so you want <ís>. Or rather, that's what you'd...
35719
david_russell_watson
david_russel...
Dec 30, 2004 2:33 am
... What does "Wiiiiiiik" mean? I've never seen that expression before. David...
35720
Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Dec 30, 2004 2:40 am
At 9:32:54 PM on Wednesday, December 29, 2004, ... Willem is referring to the Finnish linguist Kalevi Wiik. Merlijn de Smit has a rather devastating summary of...
35721
Abdullah Konushevci
a_konushevci
Dec 30, 2004 4:57 am
*angw/(h)i- `snake, worm' is one of much attested root in IE languages (see Pokorny pp. 43-44). If we accept zero-grade and unaspirated form *n.gw|i-, we can...
35722
willemvermeer
Dec 30, 2004 7:33 am
... My personal favourite among the none-too-numerous publications in generally accessible languages is Cornelius Hasselblatt's article "Wo die wahre...
35723
tgpedersen
Dec 30, 2004 10:47 am
... Dutch. ... don't ... elegance. ... or ... that ... I'm sure there is a lesson to learned from this whole experience and someday I might discover what it...
35724
Kim Bastin
kim999au
Dec 30, 2004 11:18 am
... "Freezing rain" is our unimaginative name for this phenomenon. Though people in places like northern Canada or Scotland, who must see more of it, perhaps...
35725
Richard Wordingham
richardwordi...
Dec 30, 2004 12:35 pm
... <Hristugena> "Christ's ... I don't think there's a massive problem in deriving *crestúna, though the loss of intervocalic /g/ is not common in Balkan ...
35726
willemvermeer
Dec 30, 2004 12:42 pm
... Though ... My dictionary gave "glazed frost", which somehow sounded too weird to trust. By the way, it can happen more or less anywhere if a period of ...
35727
Jim Rader
iacrotarius
Dec 30, 2004 3:00 pm
... A common name for this phenomenon in the northeast U.S. is "black ice." Black ice can also refer to the surface of a frozen pond in late fall, before the...
35728
Peter P
peteput
Dec 30, 2004 5:59 pm
... Black ice in my terminology is just dampness on a road that freezes and becomes slippery. This is common this time of year. Freezing rain is rain that...
35729
alexandru_mg3
Dec 31, 2004 2:21 am
... I agree that the output of PAlb st is Alb sht. However in Lat. bestia we have tj-a : a hiatus that gave ts /c/ in Roman Times that next passed to s in...
35730
Gordon Selway
gordonselway
Dec 31, 2004 8:52 am
Would 'Glatteis' roughly equate to 'black ice'? Freezing rain' looks like referring to the precipitation and not the product of it on the ground. Bliadhna...
35731
g
tolgs001
Dec 31, 2004 9:44 am
... Yes. (Although in German, for "slippery";, <glatt> wouldn't be enough: <rutschig>, <glitschig>, <gleitend> would be the more appropriate adjectives.) Hence...
35732
Abdullah Konushevci
a_konushevci
Dec 31, 2004 2:44 pm
... i ... in ... ***AK: That unvoiced dental obstruent /t/ plus palatal glide /j/ have different treatment in Albanian from the cluster /st/, it is obvious...
35733
alex
altamix
Dec 31, 2004 6:02 pm
... there is no "poroc^iti" but "poro~c^iti" (for ~ speaks the Romanain word "porunci") thus, the cluster "nc^" > "s". About "tërsirë" I guess we have ...
35734
alexandru_mg3
Dec 31, 2004 6:44 pm
***AK: Except Sl. <poroc^iti> that yields Alb. <porosis>, we have also Sl. <zatec^i> Alb. <zates>, Sl. <trac^ina> Alb. Tosk <tërsirë>. Your new examples are...
35735
alexandru_mg3
Dec 31, 2004 6:59 pm
... word ... I fully agree (I don't know exactly the notation: o^ or o~ here) but in any case the Slavic form is *poro^c^iti so its not a simple o there...See...
35736
petegray
Dec 31, 2004 10:25 pm
A Romanian of my acquaintance was unable to think of a Romanian word for Reindeer. Alex? Is there one? Peter...
35737
alexandru_mg3
Jan 1, 2005 2:28 am
... word for ... Eng. Reindeer -> Rom. ren pl. reni http://www.dictionare.com/phpdic/enro.php3?field0=Reindeer+...
