Hi Piotr, and others, a friend just pointed out this old message from the archives out to me, and I wanted to know what your current thoughts are, it's...
... The spelling VECOS is what is attested. What it stood for can be debated. Ernout (Recueil de Textes Latins Archaiques) simply says "with reduction of the...
... How many of these words can be traced to Saamic / Lappish? Perhaps there was a time when Saamic or similar was spoken in all Scandinavia and into...
... Hardly any, as far as I know. It's one of the puzzling aspects of the putative pre-Germanic substrate that it doesn't seem to have been Sámi-Finnic. ... ...
Does this seems to point that Germanic in Scandinavia is older than Saami? And if Saami original language was not Uralic? For example, what would be the origin...
proto-semitic: *thawr- 'bull' [arabic thawru, hebrew sho:r, aramic tawr, ...] proto-IE: *tawros / *tarwos 'bull' Do you know the form for 'bull' in other...
... I don't know, frankly. ... The Sámi languages are a crucially important component of Sámi identity. "Being Sámi" is to a large extent a matter of...
Metrosexuals a no-no for linguists AP[ THURSDAY, JANUARY 01, 2004 09:09:20 AM ] DETROIT: Calling all metrosexuals: Get rid of that bling-bling -- or at least...
While amusing, it's OT. This list is about IE studies and closely related subjects, not about the last season's linguistic dregs from colloquial American...
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/tambula1 Tambu_lam, an age-old vrata, a_gama tradition Mahavams'a is dated to 6th century CE and Br.hatsamhita_ to 5th...
... Indo- ... the ... Scandinavia ... prehistory, ... that ... Which is all true. Apart from that, there's a Samland peninsula in East Prussia, and there's the...
... Let ... pastoralist ... don't ... Now you're talking! Thanks. I think you'll like this quote from Hans Kuhn: "Das letzte Indogermanisch": "Der Wortschatz...
... Ain't I! :-) ... If the ancestors of the <<nordgermanischen>> (or, as they're called here, outside the <<Preissnland>>: <<Nordlichter>>) migrated to...
... aramic ... This looks like the (s)th2eu-ro root Sergei mentioned at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/17789 . Might it be a derivative? ...
... On the other hand, Saamic loanwords are found among Russian dialectal words in the region of the Beloe lake (the White lake) and the eastern shore of the...
Alexander Stolbov
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Jan 2, 2004 12:58 pm
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... These, however are recent loans into the local Slavic dialects. The original question was about loans from Sámi or Finnic into Proto-Germanic, not into...
... dem ... und ... Nordwestblock ... Except that Kuhn is seeing the place names he uses to back up his theory not as Germanic but as Nordwestblockese, or...
Some examples from the "Dreiautorenbuch": Rivers <Ems> and <Hunse>, but the districts around them in the earliest sources <Emer-> and <Huner-gewe>; the old...
... the trouble is that what appears to be true - see "minTi" (to lie) but "minciună" (lie) does not fit too properly phoneticaly. The "i" in Latin suffix...
... That's L&S's suggestion, but L&S are notoriously unreliable on etymology. Rix has *weh2 "sich wenden". That might be possible. Where I pinched the idea...
... resources, on-line or >printed, for learning about Indo-European sound laws? The standard introductory books are helpful - I assume you know them: Beekes,...
Yes, these loans are recent - only in the end of the 1st millennium first Slavic groups appeared in the Beloozero region. By the way this region is ...
Alexander Stolbov
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Jan 2, 2004 5:46 pm
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... No, there is a [y] in diphthong not [e]. Back to lesson 1. ... It is simply a false inference. ... False. It can't be anything else but inherited. ... That...
Are some of the putative "Pre-Germanic" substrata in Proto-Germianic shared with Proto-Baltic, Proto-Slavic or Proto-Celtic? Joao SL ... From: Alexander...
