... http://dnghu.org/Indo-European-Languages/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=5a341258abb3261b7aae1ad952c54a0d ... We discussed some of them. The difference is that this...
... It's bigger than Pictish. Cf. http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/pd.html particularly what Vennemann has to say. There should be further comparanda...
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... Here's what Ernout-Meillet has to say: 'pauio:, -i:s, -i:tum, -i:re: battre la terre pour l'aplanir; niveler. Presque uniquement employé dans l'expression...
The Andhras are one of the most prachina Jati (ancient community) in the world. They are variously called as Andhras, Andhra bhrityus, Telugus, while several...
... [...] ... Playing the innocent again, I see. Very well, I'll spell it out for you: you give no evidence of being qualified to comment on the quality of...
At 6:46:24 AM on Sunday, June 1, 2008, tgpedersen wrote: [...] ... And the very first one completely misses the obvious source of Irish <peacadh>, Breton...
... What are the charges, mr. Grand Inquisitor? ... I assumed that the letter 'p' stood for the phoneme 'p', since that was necessary for my line of reasoning....
... Yes, we've discussed those before, and my answer now as then is that a derivation from Latin is likely, but there's the odd chance it goes with the rest of...
from Endre Bojtár: Foreword to the Past, A Cultural History of the Baltic People. p. 31-33 'The Baltic terms for amber are the following: Lith. gintaras ...
... I'd rather suppose an origin from an IE language similar to Indic, with *gi:tu(h)aranya- 'golden resin' undergoing dissimilation and metathesis (and...
... meri-vai/k, -gu, ie "sea resin". Finnish and Saami forms? That's what I have at hand. ... Sw. bärnsten, Germ. Bernstein, from LGerm. bernste:n, 1st elmt....
... In what sense similar? Sanskrit has jatu "resin". And why would anyone choose to characterize amber as "golden resin" when they are practically the same...
... For that, we need a substrate which has /v/, but no /w/. Greek fulfills that criterion and was the language of the growing class of Christians on Rome. If...
... P. T. Barnum would agree that saps come in all colors. Maple sap is kind of clear but boils down to brown. Copal is black. Sangre de dragón, surprise, is...
I found this interesting and fodder for a nice friendly polemical discussion and free-for-all. "Iberian Language" Wikipedia European hypothesis: a recent...
... No, you would probably say pitch is black. So how does that get into the discussion? The relevant resins are golden. ... What on earth are you talking...
/w/ > /v/ in Latin have ... Modern Greek does. Ask yourself at what time Greek /v/ developed. By the early empire, written <b> was pronounced as a bilabial...
... Sigh. Seems I have to translate another Kuhn article. This one's gonna be long. Kuhn: Das letzte Indogermanisch, pp 6-11 'Vor rund 15 Jahren glückte es...
... From: david_russell_watson <liberty@...> Subject: [tied] Re: Persian cup To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 5:06 AM ......
... You assumed with no evidence that the word you believed existed always and only meant one thing, golden resin, and hence no word made of golden + golden...
... No, I didn't. I pointed out that all resins you'd see exude from trees in these latitudes are golden, or amber-colored. ... No hence. I pointed out it...
... You said the word was borrowed; how would you know if it was originally redundant? The speakers of the language could have lived almost anywhere. ... ...
... I don't know. Was it? ... The speakers of what language? ... That's right, but I wasn't talking about redundancy. Are you on acid? ... You're not doing a...
... . . . ... . . . ... . . . Not all amber is golden. On an amber page linked to Wikipedia "Amber" they showed various hues berween transparent to red to...
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