... Asthma is a greek word, meaning shortness of breath. You find it in standard authors such as Aeschylus and Plato. It also clearly has a structure...
... Well, it was WS eom < *izmi, Merc. eam and Nbr. am. The latter two seem to follow the vocalism of <(e)arþ> in those dialects, and so look analogical. ...
... From: etherman23<mailto:etherman23@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:18 AM Subject:...
... My version: to *ei an *ou, which is more plausible phonetically. *oi and *eu were introduced later by analogy to the ablaut grades *e/*o/zero. Torsten...
... We have ON em, ert (est), er, erum, eruþ, eru, OE am, art, is, aru, aru, aru What part of that can't be explained by analogy? Why do we need a root *er-? ...
... This is almost OK for Northumbrian (except that the 2sg. is arþ and the pl. is <arun> -- sorry, I didn't spot the typo in my own posting) and Mercian,...
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... From: stlatos To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:40 PM Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] xY>xy; x>s; etc. (was:...
I will never be convinced by refutations or explanations, that include : metathesis, haplology, very likely, likely, dissimilated, doesn't sem, sporadic,...
I will get back to what really matters : DATA. My point of view : I have already made clear. Point 1 : PIE inherited a set of four vowels : *i *u *a (written...
... Latin m>w, w>m) ... They're not the same: H1 = xY and H2 = x ... people's data and hypotheses. I didn't say I was afraid. I don't feel there's much point...
... First a digression: Some Germanic languages/dialects (German, Dutch, Kent, Somerset) have/had initial z- and v- (voiced f) for s- and f- (but not G- for...
For some strange reason, some loanwords that are reputedly Etruscan have voiced stops: balteus, subulo. I don't know if the Romans saw the Etruscan dichotomy ...
... "Moretti and his crew", as you called them, never said this. If somebody is an ignorant here, it's you! The Vasco-Caucasian hypothesis relates Proto-NEC...
As I said, I plead ignorance but I distanctly remember them linking Etruscan to NEC and NEC to Basque No te encachimbés, 'mano, "crew" quiere decir "equipo, ...
... http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/taalentongval/abstracts/Vaan2.pdf Seems there were several places called Waas (I don't think the 'Goth' connection holds). ...
At 4:30:52 AM on Wednesday, October 3, 2007, tgpedersen ... [...] ... No places named <Waas> are mentioned in the abstract. Gueux (Marne) is in record as...
... This is something I've been thinking about for some time now. Are women, for some reason, refractory to historical linguistics? How many women do you know...
Maybe we should write more about Amazons and Sarmatians (:=))) Or renew our disputes about the relevance of Gimbutas. Or: I can think of dozens of other...
... There are some, but we lurk. In the past i've noticed that women's posts didn't get responded as readily, that could be a factor. I've been on for many...
... the commonest form of verbal root formation in PIE. Indeed. ... *C'VC. Yes. ... (only) verbal pattern calls for *'V, we should expect **CíC not *CeiC, ...