... My guess is that the word is Semitic, and that Sem. Tawr- (with T denoting "thorn") was integrated into IE as *(s)tew-ro-, where both s- movable variants...
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I myself lean towards the theory of a Pontic-Caspian home base for PIE. However, the issue with likely borrowings with Semitic poses some issues. Along with...
*wogwh-ni `ploughshare'. 1. Alb umb `small plowshare on a wooden plow', Tosk and Standard Albanian form, umi as Gheg variant, from nasalized zero-grade form...
... "The failure of Indo-Europeanist and other historical linguists even to consider the possibility of some relationships between the strikingly obvious...
I understood <<Thorn>> as the sound of <T> , i.e. like <th> in <thorn> ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?...
... There is no "English -ny-"; the actual suffix (forming adjectives from NOUNS) is -y- (thorn-y < OE þorn-ig). X-y means 'like an X', 'full of X-es' and the...
... If these words are related, I think *ungwhus would be unnecessary. In Greek o>u between certain combinations of round (or sonorant) sounds. Albanian...
... I wonder why S. Starostin's databases don't venture into comparing these two proto-words, which look astonishingly similar in form and meaning: ...
... First, why do you think or why do you doubt that they can't be related. As far as I know, English plough is a variant of plow. So, semantically, plowshare...
... They may be related, they may not. I don't see enough evidence to be sure either way. If umb has no PIE etymology there's nothing more I can say about...
... more ... ************ First of all, there is nothing unutural then zero-grade forms to be nasalized, so *wegWh-ni in zero-grade form would look *ungWh-;...
That way they can claim more roots. I seem to remember quite a few such roots in Bomhard's earlier work. ... __________________________________________________...
Did the PIE dog *k^won include what kind of dogbreeds? Shepherds? Water-dogs? Primitive spitz-like dogs? Sighthounds? Spaniels? Mastiffs? Sleuthhounds? Joao...
... If the PIE root is *(s)taur then we have an apparent violation of root constraints. PIE didn't have any roots with a diphthong followed by a resonant. That...
... root ... tau ... I have a second thought: It now looks to me more like a case of borrowing back and forth. We may begin with IE *stéwH-ro-/*stuH-ró-, ...
Semitic T (fricative) > IE st- ? The vocalism *tauro- is alike *g(^)Haido- When and where does this Semitic/IE contact ocurr? Semitic homeland is sometimes...
I'd like to see your comments. I found it in http://iatp.am/resource/science/history/aram/summary.htm THE MYTH OF ARAM IN THE CONTEXT OF INDO - EUROPEAN...
... is sometimes depicted as Arabian or Northeastern African. ... The Indo-European Vowels in Albanian Stuart E. Mann Language > Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jul., 1950),...
... If the word shows C-N in most languages but N-C in just one I'd prefer to assume metathesis is the cause in that one language. I can't be completely sure...
... Why should there be any original connection between *tauros and *stew-x-ros? One only means 'bull' and the other 'strong/big/old etc.' which could be...
... Even if *tauros also goes back to a PIE form, that still doesn't prove any connection. It's possible that: * tew-x+ 'protect, be strong' * tew-x-ro+...
... That is not completely accurate: Stier and thjórr do mean 'bull', so, even if *stew(&)-ro- had other meanings too in PIE, it is entirely possible that it...
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