Sorry about my garbled memory, it's been years since I'd read that. There should be some old posts on Tristrum and Isolde in the Cybalist archives --maybe...
... I think that there was OL * do:to:r 'giver', and * sakrodo:to:r 'giver of the sacifice (to the gods)'. The cp. had dis. of r-r > r-0 in * sakrodo:tr+ > *...
PREAMBLE: IE. reconstructions are usually the result of etymological analysis and research into later attested words. But these words are based exclusively on...
... OHG <pfand> and Da. <pant> do not belong here. If memory serves, Kuhn regarded them as NWB loanwords. ... Can you rule out the possibility of borrowing...
Proposal: the same *kYiN- I suspect behind Cimbri, Ktistai "pure ones" etc http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67959?unwrap=1&var=1&l=1 might...
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Jan 17, 2012 10:55 am
Hello to everyone, I live in South Western Nepal 3 month a year. The natives here speak 2 dialects of Hindi (Avadhi, tongue linked with Lucknow across the...
JACQUES HUYNEN wrote: Hello to everyone, I live in South Western Nepal 3 month a year. The natives here speak 2 dialects of Hindi (Avadhi, tongue linked with...
... The "culprit" in this case cannot be the Indian diaspora in the West Indies because the term banbhoj 'picnic' (lit. 'forest feast'), attested as such in...
... No, it isn't (see below). ... Maybe. See below. ... The Vedic -ta participle is baddha (euphonic < *badh-ta), and the Avestan passive past participle is...
A sequel to my recent post entitled 'PIE * bhendh-' PREAMBLE: IE. reconstructions are usually the result of etymological analysis and research into later...
Since we are on the topic of 'bind', the following example is another unexplained match between Arabic and Germanic. POKORNY: # 444 gherdh-, and gherdh-IE -to...
At 11:44:19 PM on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, The Egyptian ... Of course; anything else would be methodological nonsense. Only someone with no understanding...
... F. Steingass' Arabic-English Dictionary gives: 1) garaD- (inf. garD-) 'to strap the girth-leather across the camel's chest' 2) gurDa-t, girDa-t (pl. gurD,...
Dear List, ... For completeness of information, I must add that both Aron Dolgopolsky and Allan Bomhard consider Eg. b-n-d/b-n-T to be a "Nostratic" cognate to...
Hi everybody ! Excuse me for being a little off topic. I find this topic of IE-Semitic connections very interesting. However, I just regret that roots are...
This Message was sent in in plain text Unicode format which retains all character set information. PREAMBLE: Linguistic similarities in words, identical in...
... Shame on me for forgetting about Bartholomae's Law! ... At present, that looks like the best bet. If a Mitannian prince ruled Palestine, it is certainly...
... I would not rule out an early borrowing of a noun 'girdle, sash' from PIE to Proto-Semitic, with further borrowing into neighboring Proto-Cushitic. A...
... provided systematic sound-correspondences could be provided. That is, after all, the rub with long-range work. ... IMHO, the study of the IE family itself...
Hello, Does anyone happen to know the origin of the suffix -kk- in Icelandic/Old Norse (as seen in hkka "rise, ascend" < hr "high", fkka "lessen" < fr...
... Well, considering the entity commonly called "PIE" isn't actually a single language but a conglomerate of several different varieties spoken over a wide...
... Exaggeration. ... Doesn't really matter whether you think so or not, or for that matter whether you're right: the usage is still non-standard and therefore...
This Message was sent in in plain text Unicode format which retains all character set information. ... HOBBLE is a typical aporetic term, as it contains...
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Jacques Huynen
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Jan 23, 2012 11:01 am
to Francesco, Yes but, that does not say by which phonetic mechanism "bamboche", if not a loan word directly from Indian diasporic or indigenous, may have...
... According to de Vries, <fkka> is the result of assimilation in an earlier form <ftka>, which is actually attested. There is also a <smkka> 'to make...
