... '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...
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... 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...
... I disagree. http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/KuhnText/22pusl-klein.html Note the Germ. *pusik- etc words, and their cognate with diminutive suffix...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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'...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... [...] ... 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....
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... Oh? What about *gYonYxWeye+ > *kYaniyi+ > OE cennan? You also didn't object to: *kWen.-x-tro+ > Skt khanítra- 'spade' even though the root appears...
... dac ... Seems that root *kat- has other derivatives, like Alb kotem 'to nap' (<to rest like cat'), kot-illë '(animal) offspirng', singularia tantum,...
... Wrong. OE cennan 'beget, conceive' contains a different root, *g^enh1-! What you could quote instead is the OE "preterite-present" cunnan, pres. cann...
... 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...
... original ... but ... one ... clear ... (Neolithic) ... The authors said: "probably domesticated in the agricultural (Neolithic) setting)"...This assertion...
... 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...
... 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...