... That's what it is! ... If you don't know, then listen to someone who knows. Marius merely pointed out many people use forms that are simply wrong. And they...
... Besides, there is the semi-colloquial (as well as old) $epte. (Moreover, after the introduction of the telephone, there has been the habit of saying $epte...
... Ich glaube langsam das ist eine Lachgesellschaft. You can let the sarcasm slows down here since you say the peasants are wrong. Are they? They are the...
... Excuse me Miguel, where should the "e" after palatal not be pronounced? In PRB or where? Actually the sound is an "e" in the diphthong "ea". And in which...
... Latin already shows exactly what you are looking for, so it's no surprise to find the construction still in Romanian. E.g. rem venturam = the affair to ...
... The word is transparent within Latin as the future participle of a verb "to be", found in the perfect forms fui etc, infinitive fore (= futurum esse, in ...
Jupiter= Jovis = *deiwos. Which should be the language which palatalised the root *deiwos for making a "j" of it and giving the romans the Jovis pater which...
... [my allusion was: "Lach- und Schiessgesellschaft" = a cabaret in Munich, a celebrity in the German-speaking countries; existence for about 5 decades now;...
... form may ... within I-I. ... Herz und Schmerz? ;-) I still think mine is a possible solution. But I should look into all the other dh/t, bH/p etc...
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:22:01 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> ... In (standard) Romanian. Bourciez $460.3: "Derrière une palatale l'e ne se prononce pas...
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:07:37 -0000, "tgpedersen ... Perhaps you should concentrate on finding a "loose" nasal in the first place. In IE, we have s-mobile, but...
I'm aware that this is way off topic for this list, but I like listening in to the learned discussion going on here and I'd like to know what you think about...
... Were the phonetic changes predictable by some mechanism, your idea would have some practical basis. Unfortunately this is not the case. One may try to...
... *****GK: Just curious. Isn't the "ko" retained in ordinal numbers? Was it reintroduced?****** On my way home from the library ... *****GK: I take it that...
... years from now would be exciting to read. Have there been any serious attempts at doing this? Whether they can be called _serious_ attempts may be...
Håkan Lindgren <h5@p...> wrote <<Since reconstruction of past languages started, we have learnt a lot about language development over time and about the way...
The full news reports can be found at: http://www.sciencenews.org/20030201/fob1.asp and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2699547.stm 'The new chemical...
But it has been done for a long time. Romanicists have always emphasised the difference between Proto-Romance and written Latin. To do the reconstruction...
... hrd ... But ... see ... first ... That m-prefix ("my heart"?) would be a one-off thing, true. But there is a n-infix. And of course I might argue that...
... listening in to the learned discussion going on here and I'd like to know what you think about this. Shoot it down if it's a bad idea. ... lot about...
... emphasised the difference between Proto-Romance and written Latin. To do the reconstruction literally "without any knowledge of Latin" is of course...
... From: <tgpedersen@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [tied] Reconstructing a future language...
... From: <tgpedersen@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [tied] Reconstructing a future language...
... similarity. To give an example from zoology, elephants and tenrecs are more closely related to each other than either group is to shrews, moles or...
