... You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Any good etymological dictionary will tell you that <gHarmá-> is related to <forna:x> etc. (and to Gk. <tHermos>,...
... from> > Latin furnus, fornus, forna_x, oven; *gwhr-. a. burn from Old ... to> > burn; ?forge. Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin> >...
... Dear Dr. Kalyanaraman, I'm concerned, in my moderatorial capacity, about the content of your posting. It contains no material connected with IE studies; it...
... <piotr.gasiorowski@i...> wrote:> I'm concerned, in my moderatorial capacity, about the content of your> posting. It contains no material connected with IE...
... I'm happy to admit that my assertion is not the whole story. But can you find any example where the imperfect subjunctive stands in opposition to the...
... <piotr.gasiorowski@i...> wrote:> > I thought the postings indicate a number of Indo-Aryan lexemes which> > should be of interest to IE studies. If you...
... stands in ... all the ... carries a ... is some ... tense. But ... Some may have been misled, I was not. I was very much aware of the danger, so I checked...
Ok. Mr.Watson let us try. How do we explain this anamoly? Some words are lingustically datable to 1500 BCE and yet they cleaerly describe a river in PRESENT...
... Perhaps you should make an attempt to understand them before you disparage them. They are far more coherent than speculation about "the mighty Sarasvati"...
... BCE and ... that went ... admittedly ... continue on ... If we could ... *****GK: David, are you not expecting too much from someone who can't spell and...
... it ... [ Peter suggests several things] Due to the vagaries of the internet, I am replying to my own posting, because it arrived a day later than Jens'...
... No. Homer describes a bronze age helmet, but his verses are very much later than the helmet. The oral tradition about the helmet survived. The Hebrew...
... It's more important for the argument at hand how _you_ explain this anomaly, which is by rejecting comparative linguistics out right. Let's see if that's...
... Well, he claims to be a chemist, so I'm hoping he knows at least a little about science. Though of course there's no science without logic. David W....
My copy of the latest issue (Feb. 27) of SCIENCE just arrived, with the featured section entitled "Evolution of Language". Mostly not professional papers, but...
DW: 1) The Rig Veda refers in the present tense to a still flowing Sarasvati river. 2) It's impossible for the Rig Veda to refer in the present tense to any...
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:56:47 +0000, elmeras2000 ... In Celtic, we have Old Lepontic -oiso < *-osyo. The later Lepontic ending is -i:, as in Gaulish, and as can...
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:49:37 +0000, P&G ... If I may barge into the discussion, the surprising thing to me about the Latin imperfect subjunctive is not the...
... From: "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 1:46 AM Subject: [tied] Re: reply to Mr. Watson ...
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:56:55 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton" ... Slavic *jugU or *ugU must come from *augos or *eugos/*ougos. The only possible connection seems to...
... In sentences where the usual sequence of tenses is followed, it is the replacement of the present subjunctive when the main verb is past. That does not...
... Hmmm.. interesting. For Alb. "agume" there is Rom. "ajun" which means "some time before", "at the begin or end of" ( ajunul serii, ajunul bobotezei, ajunul...
... Mmmm..hmm.. agoj < *agonj < *agonyos ? That remember me of neologism agony in English and the meaning by now appears very interesting. I would like to...
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:35:28 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci ... <Agume> is given by Pokorny ("alb. agój 'tage', agume 'Morgenröte, Morgen' (s. Persson Beitr....
... ************ It seems I didn't think enough. Pokorny's <agume> 'dawn' could easy be old form of present participle passive of the verb <agoj> 'to dawn',...
