... . . . ... . . . ... . . . 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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tgpedersen
Jun 2, 2008 6:41 pm
... 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...
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stlatos
Jun 2, 2008 5:11 pm
... 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. ... ...
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tgpedersen
Jun 2, 2008 4:22 pm
... 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...
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stlatos
Jun 2, 2008 2:15 pm
... 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...
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george knysh
gknysh
Jun 2, 2008 12:17 pm
... From: david_russell_watson <liberty@...> Subject: [tied] Re: Persian cup To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 5:06 AM ......
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tgpedersen
Jun 2, 2008 7:48 am
... 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...
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Rick McCallister
gabaroo6958
Jun 2, 2008 7:35 am
... Not too many birches or firs around here, so I wouldn't know...
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P&G
petegray
Jun 2, 2008 7:10 am
/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...
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tgpedersen
Jun 2, 2008 6:42 am
... 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...
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Rick McCallister
gabaroo6958
Jun 2, 2008 4:28 am
I found this interesting and fodder for a nice friendly polemical discussion and free-for-all. "Iberian Language" Wikipedia European hypothesis: a recent...
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david_russell_watson
david_russel...
Jun 2, 2008 4:06 am
... What sort of meaning; is there writing on the cup? I can't see any. David...
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Rick McCallister
gabaroo6958
Jun 2, 2008 2:04 am
... 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...
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stlatos
Jun 2, 2008 1:44 am
... The second part is what would be most similar: Skt hiranya-, Av zaranya-. Since Hungarian arany 'gold' also is borrowed and also must come from...
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tgpedersen
Jun 2, 2008 12:50 am
... 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...
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tgpedersen
Jun 2, 2008 12:14 am
... 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...
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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 11:41 pm
... 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....
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stlatos
Jun 1, 2008 11:07 pm
... 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...
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 ...
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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 8:06 pm
... 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...
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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 7:53 pm
... 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....
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Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Jun 1, 2008 7:14 pm
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...
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Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Jun 1, 2008 6:43 pm
... [...] ... 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...
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Kishore patnaik
kishore_future
Jun 1, 2008 4:14 pm
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...
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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 4:06 pm
... 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...
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cybalist@yahoogroups....
Jun 1, 2008 3:26 pm
***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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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 11:30 am
... 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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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 10:46 am
... That list was rather long. Here are some comparanda: Jysk: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30336 NWB: ...
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tgpedersen
Jun 1, 2008 9:51 am
... http://dnghu.org/Indo-European-Languages/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=5a341258abb3261b7aae1ad952c54a0d ... We discussed some of them. The difference is that this...
