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I've heard only of one: WORD + DEED TONGUE + HAND or reconstructed approximately *wo:kw- + *werg^- *dn.g^huh2- + *g^hes-r/*g^hos-to- I read it in either the...
... Häkkinen contends that Finnish 'kieli' is of FU origin <*ke:le. Estonian keel Nor. Lap giella' Mordvin kel' Votyak kyl Ostyak ket Yurak-Samoyedic s'ie ...
... Of course, if tt>tst in PIE, this dissimilation couldn't have occurred in Latin. Germanic didn't have this change, the tt>[]ss was an areal change. It...
... The Indic d>z change also occurs after the loss of a V (due to dissim.): dheigh+ 'smear' dhidhighz.e+ didhighz.e+ didighz.e+ didghz.e+ dizghz.e+ di:ghz.e+ ...
... But Iranian has dht>ddh but no loss of s/z between obs. (or, as an alternative, restoration of voicing ... Why would this analogy only work on voiced...
... -d(H)-t- ... Actually, since you allow PIE dzH I can't prove that the intermediate stage contains ddh (assuming you also don't require only stop+v+H $ stop...
... Yes, I realized you'd probably say a fric+H could do what was normally done by a stop+H (see previous). However, without dehi, datte, etc., explained in...
... This theory, *dazdhí > dehí, which seems certain to me, is the main reason I've said x(),>0 between dental obstruents then d>z/_$T. Any explanation of...
[This revised post was sent as a quotation of an earlier post. I have removed the misleading formatting as a quotation - Richard, moderator] I though that...
... So either some Uralic language is a substrate of NWBlock or I'd have to give up the claim. 1) My Estonian - Danish dictionary says for keel,-e "language,...
I've never believed that t>ts anywhere in PIE, so I haven't consistently organized my evidence against it. With this discussion I've been surprised just how ...
My problem with matar from mactare is that unless it were borrowed, you would come up with mechar or machar e.g. leche < lacte mata in Spanish is "plant"...
... Macte, mactus don't make a very strong impression of being strict-pedigree IE-Latin, anyway. They look like substrate loans. Perhaps you could argue for...
In Portuguese there are moita (variation mouta, cf. surnames and toponyms Moutoso, Moutinho, Moutosa, Mota) "bush, thicket", mata "wood, forest" and mato...
Turn out others note this connection before J. Hubschmid, Mediterrane Substrate, p. 75 " 53. Sardinien und Nordafrika gemeinsam ist ein Flußnamenstamm *sip-, ...
The Portuguese/Spanish surnames Queirós, Quirós, Queiroga came from a word queiro´s (<*queiroos) designating a kind of heath Calluna vulgaris. Are these...
In Costa Rica, where the Quirós are an aristocratic family, they say "Al lado de Dios, Quirós" I think the Costa Rican Quirós are of Asturian ancestry Your...
Could somebody explain me why Beekes says 'On wrong hypotheses': " On wrong hypotheses s. W.-Hofmann s. aboleo:, de:leo: and volnus;" making reference too...
Celtic?...It's possible. The Portuguese toponyms Queiriz and Queiriga are considered to be <Quederici and Quederica, that seem to be Germanic. I dont know if...
Obviously, I'm guessing but if the names are from NW Iberia and if they maintained an IE *k-, I'd look at Celtic or Lusitanian. BTW I've seen confusing data...