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49237
... 'puss' has p- and therefore can't be Germanic either (since that would be from almost non-existent PIE b-). As a matter of fact, initial p- is one of the...
tgpedersen
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Jul 1, 2007
8:28 am
49238
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Arabic "The influence of Nubian languages In northern and central parts of Sudan, Sudanese colloquial Arabic has been...
alexandru_mg3
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Jul 1, 2007
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49239
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_Arabic "The influence of Nubian languages In northern and central parts of Sudan, Sudanese colloquial Arabic has been...
alexandru_mg3
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Jul 1, 2007
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49240
***HOW TO BEHAVE ON CYBALIST*** Moderatorial Recommendations and Rules of Proper Conduct The purpose of Cybalist is to popularise Indo-European studies and to...
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Jul 1, 2007
11:35 am
49241
... would ... Celts ... On my side: a) I suspect that Celtic piseag is really a Celtic word reflecting a Proto-Celtic *kWis- > *pis- b) In this way the root...
alexandru_mg3
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Jul 1, 2007
12:32 pm
49242
... actually the onomatopea with one calls the cats in Romanian is still "pis". Is is repeated several times "pis pis pis" Alex...
alex
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Jul 1, 2007
2:22 pm
49243
... I disagree. http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/KuhnText/22pusl-klein.html Note the Germ. *pusik- etc words, and their cognate with diminutive suffix...
tgpedersen
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Jul 1, 2007
2:58 pm
49244
... The -ak/-ax 'individuating' suffix (creating an individual out of a mass term, especially animals etc) I have suspected before of being responsible for the...
tgpedersen
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Jul 1, 2007
3:20 pm
49245
... There's no good ev. that H3 (xW) didn't cause aspiration in some IE languages (in the same env. that H1 and H2 caused it). If you assume PIE *poxWtlom > L...
stlatos
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Jul 1, 2007
6:49 pm
49246
... You assume that only PIE e > Germanic i? Depending on the env. x() ... Another bird word in *-do- > *-ta- is *gYhansxY,do+ > *gYanuta+ > OE ganot > E...
stlatos
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Jul 1, 2007
7:00 pm
49247
At 4:28:42 AM on Sunday, July 1, 2007, tgpedersen wrote: [...] ... The suffix is <-(e)ag> ~ <-(e)ág>; the <e> is written only when it follows a 'slender'...
Brian M. Scott
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Jul 1, 2007
7:13 pm
49248
At 10:31:12 PM on Saturday, June 30, 2007, Rick McCallister ... According to the OED, it's from Irish <pus> 'lip, mouth', generally used in a contemptuous...
Brian M. Scott
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Jul 1, 2007
7:39 pm
49249
... I don't think so. It seems like a simple: *gYenY-xW-tro+ *gYnY,xW-tr(e)+ > *gYnYoxW-tr(e)+ with optional insertion of e>o to prevent CY and CW coming...
stlatos
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Jul 1, 2007
7:43 pm
49250
... It's *kotU, actually. Slavic also has *kotiti (seN) 'bear offspring' (of various animals including cats but also e.g. sheep and goats, and in Modern Polish...
Piotr Gasiorowski
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Jul 1, 2007
8:07 pm
49251
... _I_ don't think so. The root is *//g^neh3-//, not **//g^enh3-//. The place where the vowel appears does matter. Piotr...
Piotr Gasiorowski
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Jul 1, 2007
8:15 pm
49252
... [...] ... OE loss of intervocalic /x/ and /x/ between /l, r/ and a vowel was general: <te:on> 'to draw', but 3 sg. pret. <te:ah>; <he:ah> 'high', gen. sg....
Brian M. Scott
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Jul 1, 2007
8:21 pm
49253
... What's it doing on a non-Celtic word? Torsten...
tgpedersen
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Jul 1, 2007
10:14 pm
49254
... offspring' (of ... in ... Cf. ... If the cats really have 100,000 years of domestication, any PIE-man should know from the beginning the word/words for...
alexandru_mg3
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Jul 1, 2007
10:17 pm
49255
... No, no, they have not. Daniel has already explained what the original article in Science actually says. Some of the lineages within the species _Felis...
Piotr Gasiorowski
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Jul 1, 2007
10:33 pm
49256
... It's still productive in Sc.Gael. Brian...
Brian M. Scott
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Jul 1, 2007
11:01 pm
49257
At 8:32:36 AM on Sunday, July 1, 2007, alexandru_mg3 wrote: [...] ... This is of course impossible. The word is not just Celtic; it is specifically Scottish...
Brian M. Scott
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Jul 1, 2007
11:23 pm
49258
... Oh? What about *gYonYxWeye+ > *kYaniyi+ > OE cennan? You also didn't object to: *kWen.-x-tro+ > Skt khanítra- 'spade' even though the root appears...
stlatos
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Jul 2, 2007
2:58 am
49259
... dac ... Seems that root *kat- has other derivatives, like Alb kotem 'to nap' (<to rest like cat'), kot-illë '(animal) offspirng', singularia tantum,...
Abdullah Konushevci
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Jul 2, 2007
3:29 am
49260
... Wrong. OE cennan 'beget, conceive' contains a different root, *g^enh1-! What you could quote instead is the OE "preterite-present" cunnan, pres. cann...
Piotr Gasiorowski
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Jul 2, 2007
6:33 am
49261
... I'm talking about OE cennan 'make known', ON kenna 'teach, know', OHG bichennan 'know'. You may argue with the possible derivation and sound changes I...
stlatos
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Jul 2, 2007
7:41 am
49262
... original ... but ... one ... clear ... (Neolithic) ... The authors said: "probably domesticated in the agricultural (Neolithic) setting)"...This assertion...
alexandru_mg3
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Jul 2, 2007
8:25 am
49263
... How common is this b-/p- alternation? What are the other examples? ... Ernout-Meillet: ba:sium "kiss" " ... L'apparition tardive du mot laisse supposer un...
tgpedersen
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Jul 2, 2007
10:11 am
49264
... So these " schwed. mdal. pysk pyske „kleiner mißgestalteter Mensch", Schweiz. pfosech „Knirps" und vielleicht auch engl. pixy „Kobold" (germ....
tgpedersen
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Jul 2, 2007
10:23 am
49265
... That argument can¨'t rule out a pre-Celtic NWBlock language. Tortsten...
tgpedersen
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Jul 2, 2007
10:25 am
49266
... Ah, but that one's got double -nn- in ON and Goth. (kannjan), so it reflects Gmc. *kann-ija-/-i:-, obviously a new analogical causative based on the...
Piotr Gasiorowski
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Jul 2, 2007
11:09 am
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