... And more from "The Uralic Languages" on Fennic (Baltic Finnic) (Tiit-Rein Viitso): " Karelian Karelian consists of North (or Viena), South, Aunus (or...
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tgpedersen
Sep 26, 2006 7:35 am
... And a last quote from "The Uralic Languages" from the Introduction (Abondolo): (on syncretism of case) " In Finnish, the accusative syncretizes with the...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 26, 2006 10:41 am
... By the way, I wonder if anybody has described the laryngeal-deleting effect of the nasal infix -- I'm not aware of any studies of it. It affects...
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Jens Elmegĺrd Rasm...
elmeras2000
Sep 26, 2006 12:45 pm
... deleting ... reminiscent of ... *tn.h2ú- ... vanuté). ... root in ... consitutes ... I have addressed the issue in: Zur Abbauhierarchie des...
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tgpedersen
Sep 26, 2006 6:04 pm
In http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/piep03.html I found this passage: " The [ie. Holger Pedersen's] formulation [of Brugmann's rule] may be ...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 26, 2006 7:32 pm
... Nice to know that! I thought the problem was completely neglected. ... On the other hand, if the identification is not correct, and if it's the laryngeal...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 26, 2006 8:06 pm
... What Lehmann means is that Brugmann's law operates regularly before in non-final open syllables before resonants (Holger Pedersen) both in the perfect and...
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tgpedersen
Sep 26, 2006 9:32 pm
... That seems to work OK. Too bad. I thought for a moment I had found the birthplace of perf. o-grade (if lengthening had occurred in Skt. only before ...
46211
tgpedersen
Sep 27, 2006 6:58 am
... That would be nice. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46194 That means the two h2's in *demh2 ~ *demneh2 are not identical and that the...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 27, 2006 8:19 am
... No, things are different stem-finally. The infixed forms are *dm.nah2-ti, *tl.nah2-ti from *demh2- and *telh2-, but *g^n.noh3-ti, *str.noh3-ti, *pl.neh1-ti...
On 2006-09-27 16:03, tgpedersen wrote: [quotes from Pokorny] ...? ...? ...? I suppose the question marks mean that you have some problems with the ...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 27, 2006 7:22 pm
... I forgot to point out the crucial fact that when a _suffix_ beginning with *n is added to a root with a final laryngeal, there is no deletion, cf....
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tgpedersen
Sep 27, 2006 8:13 pm
... Nothing of the kind. I just wanted you to confirm I've identified them correctly. Sorry about the telegraph style. Torsten...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 27, 2006 9:24 pm
... I see, thanks. Yes, the identification is correct. The *ster- (etc.) root, as presented by Pokorny, is somewhat problematic. It looks like a conflation of...
46218
tgpedersen
Sep 27, 2006 10:44 pm
... -- > we have no consistent theory of PIE "root extensions". That's one reason I thought it would be nice instead to find a way to nip off 'extensions' - to...
46219
tgpedersen
Sep 28, 2006 5:48 am
... str.nó:ti, says Pokorny ('eig. zur Basis streu-). ... I don't think Skt. str.ná:-ti is much of a help in deciding between *str.néh3- with infix -n- and...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Sep 28, 2006 6:26 am
... Skt. /o, e/ are always long, so there's no need to mark their length explicitly. Some authors do, most don't. I actually mistyped the quoted form slightly:...
Hello I saw in web site that the old name of Ankara was A(n)kuwash from hittite but i don't what it means Hittite Ankuwash < Celtic Ancyra < Now Ankara It's...
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Cuadrado
dicoceltique
Sep 29, 2006 7:54 pm
Hello does any connexion between the old name of Ankara in turkia (Galatian Town)= Ancira and the Irish Aingir = Young woman (?)...
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Daniel J. Milton
danjmi
Sep 30, 2006 1:36 am
... *********** If you go to: www.travelmarker.nl/bestemmingen/azie/turkije/bezienswaardigheden/ankara.htm you find a tourist site in Dutch (if there's an...
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tgpedersen
Sep 30, 2006 4:46 pm
... Let me remind you of your ingenious emendation of *gWih3w-e/o- "live" to a reduplicated *gWigW-e/o-. You ascribe that to dissimilation, but note that the...
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A.
xthanex
Sep 30, 2006 5:18 pm
Greetings all, I am simply trying to track down the etymology of the name. AHDIER states that Chasm, Gap, and Yawn all derive from PIE *Ghai- .... would this...
46228
mkelkar2003
Sep 30, 2006 6:16 pm
""English schoolchildren are taught that their history really begins with the Roman invasion of 55 BC and Caesar's defeat of the Celtic tribes who opposed him....
46229
tgpedersen
Oct 1, 2006 1:27 am
... So (*NgW is my version of standard *gW, pre-nasalized): PPIE *stárNgW-ti, *starNgW-ánti -> PIE *stérgW-ti (-> *sterk-ti), *sterngW-énti...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
caraculiambro
Oct 1, 2006 1:32 am
... *gWí-gWw-e/o-, to be precise. ... The constraint, which is dissimilatory anyway, didn't affect transparent compounds and reduplications. For exaple, the...
46231
frank_verhoft
Oct 1, 2006 4:11 am
Hi all, I am afraid it's going to be awful silly question, but I am going to give it a try anyway. According to most sources I had a look at (see below),...
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tgpedersen
Oct 1, 2006 4:30 am
... I think I might just have confused the issue. Maybe what I want to argue for is that *-NgW- (standard: *-gW-) went *-´NgW- -> *-´h3w- *-NgW´- ->...
