... Examples? ... Says you. If there's no attestation, what are you buggin' me for? :) ... Before I get into this, I just realized yesterday that MidIE...
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 1, 2000 4:39 pm
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 11:04:45 , "Glen Gordon" ... Lat. <nomina>. Sigh. ... Or <nekuz> could be analogical after oblique forms with *e (N. *nókwts, G....
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João Simões L...
jodan99@...
Dec 1, 2000 9:24 pm
Is there any etymological conexion between English SNAKE (OE Snaca) and Hindu NAGA (NAJA) ? PIE *SNAG- ? Joao SL Rio...
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 2, 2000 2:37 am
In Collinge's "The Laws of Indo-European", under "Siever's Law II" (i.e. the development of PIE *gwh), reference is made to a work by Seebold 1967 ("Die...
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Glen Gordon
glengordon01@...
Dec 2, 2000 6:57 am
... No need to sigh, Miguel. I wanted you to provide a clear example to discuss. In the case of Latin /nomina/, how can we be sure that our /-a/ hasn't been ...
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Gregory L. Eyink
eyink@...
Dec 2, 2000 8:31 am
The rule stated by Miguel sounds strange to me, too. For example, there is reconstructed IE. *gwhermos giving Skt. gharma, Gk. thermos, Lat. formus, but we see...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 2, 2000 10:48 am
Some folks believe that Germanic *ban-o:n- (English bane) reflects *gWHon- (*gWHen- 'kill, strike'). Not very likely, in my opinion, also because of the...
4906
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 2, 2000 7:15 pm
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:08:15 , "Glen Gordon" ... And you couldn't think of one yourself? ... From where? ... Leaving aside what the PIE shape of the first bit...
4907
Glen Gordon
glengordon01@...
Dec 3, 2000 7:51 am
I'm a confused little camper. Concerning the supposed plural *no:mn-x, why does the following link show the Sanskrit plural of /na:ma(n)/ to be /na:ma:ni/? ...
4908
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 3, 2000 1:33 pm
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 07:51:18 , "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote: Please don't post in HTML. ... Pay attention. These are the...
4909
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 3, 2000 2:58 pm
I've been thinking (and I'm half serious), that if we have *h2ewi- "bird", and (without *h3) *h2owi- "sheep", the "sheep"-word would have a good chance of...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 3:33 pm
... Especially if the same root *pet(h2)- could mean both 'fall down' and 'fly'. Of course homonymy occurs in all human languages and certainly could occur in...
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João Simões L...
jodan99@...
Dec 3, 2000 4:12 pm
*h2owi- (h3-?) reffers to the female (ewe) or to the generic animal (sheep) ? It's usually stated that h2ewi- "bird"" is cognate of PIW words for "egg". Joao...
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 3, 2000 4:16 pm
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:31:23 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski" ... No, I just meant that (near) homonymy cannot be excluded, so I couldn't present it as definite proof...
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João Simões L...
jodan99@...
Dec 3, 2000 4:55 pm
How are these Roman personal names in Welsh and (Old) Irish? AURELIUS AMBROSIUS CONSTANTINUS CAESAR VALERIUS VALERIANUS CLAUDIUS JULIUS JULIA MARCIUS CAIUS...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 5:27 pm
Actually, "sheep" is reconstructed with *h2- even in the Encyclopedia of IE Culture and by many linguists who don't question the reality of *h3 but insist that...
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Christopher Gwinn
sonno3@...
Dec 3, 2000 5:36 pm
I know a few for Welsh: AURELIUS - ? There is the Modern Welsh euryll "golden" AMBROSIUS - Old Welsh Embreis (Modern Emrys) CONSTANTINUS - Old Welsh Custenhin ...
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Rex H. McTyeire
rexbo@...
Dec 3, 2000 6:44 pm
Why are we excluding the Scots and their brilliant use of: REX La Revedere Rex H. McTyeire Bucharest Romania <rexbo@...>...
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Eris
eris@...
Dec 3, 2000 7:05 pm
Hi, I just joined today. Love languages, linguistics, mythology, etc., and am currently working on getting a degree in ling. Anyhow, I was wondering if any...
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...
Dec 3, 2000 8:30 pm
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:05:11 -0000, "Eris " <eris@...> wrote: [...] ... Polish is <z.ona> too. ... But the oblique form gunaik- is already in...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 9:51 pm
Dear Eris, Lots of questions -- and a vast topic. First, a general remark. You should be careful with diacritics, length marks, etc. They are important when...
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Eris
eris@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:05 pm
... z.ona too as in it's z.ena as well, or just z.ona? Also, is the z./z' supposed to be a "zh" sound? If not, what is the marking for? ... Oh yeah, forgot...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:11 pm
I believe he means the expected "Lindeman form" *gana: < *g@na:h2. The treatment of the nasal is the same as the treatment of other sonorants in *k^(u)wo:n,...
4922
Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:24 pm
Let me answer this one, as Polish is my native language. The word is always <z.ona> (pron. "zhona"). Several centuries ago Polish /e/ underwent a change to /o/...
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Eris
eris@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:25 pm
... Yes, I see. I suppose I just don't write them out enough, at least when communicating via 'puter, to know how to do it. (I usually write the marks and ...
4924
Mark Odegard
markodegard@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:39 pm
... This is the place to ask for a clear answer to a question I've always had at the back of my mind. Should romanized Sanskrit and Hindi be pronounced,...
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Max Dashu
maxdashu@...
Dec 3, 2000 10:53 pm
... And so is the Hungarian aszony then a loan from Slavic? Max Dashu...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 11:07 pm
Here's a brief intro to Old Indic phonetics. j = "j" c = "ch" s' = "sh" (all three slightly more palatal than their English counterparts) s. = Sean Connery's...
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Glen Gordon
glengordon01@...
Dec 3, 2000 11:08 pm
... Very sorry. This is Hotmail's fault. I tried posting through Netscape as I normally do but something went buggy with it (I couldn't press the submit button...
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Piotr Gasiorowski
gpiotr@...
Dec 3, 2000 11:15 pm
It's actually asszony, isn't it? It doesn't look like a loan from Slavic to me (why not simply zsena?), but I haven't got a Finno-Ugric etymological dictionary...
