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... [OED stuff] This is a fascinating mixture, as many things British, of modern and Medieval thinking: It has all the trimmings of linguistic insights, ...
... You mean like claiming that a dictionary that appeared in 1911 is 'questioning' something I wrote last week? How's that for intellectual honesty? ... Of...
... Yes, but the question was whether the loans had passed through a p-Celtic language first. ... Maybe you should read what I wrote. If there is a time period...
... I believe Late Latin had two major sociolects: Christian Latin, which borrowed from Greek, and soldiers' Latin, which borrowed from languages of the major...
Does anyone know the reason why Sanskrit has <h-> in <hrd> "heart" (also <ha:rdi>) where non-Indo-Iranian languages all have evidence of *k^-? I think also...
The connection between parc and barre in French is still very strong : both have a derivative related to justice courts described as having a fence around the...
... The answer is not known. Note that Sanskrit does show the expected reflex in the compound *krd-dha > s'rad-dha: 'trust' and s'rad-dadhat:ti 'trusts, ...
... (also <ha:rdi>) where non-Indo-Iranian languages all have evidence of *k^-? I think also Avestan has <z-> in this word too. ... IE all show *g^-? I...
... There are words with *gYnu-, etc., such as Greek gnúx 'on the knee' and *kYniu- > knee. If there were a xY (h1) in the word why wouldn't it appear as e...
hello you said : Parisi < *kwr-s-i : those of the oak (Root *kwrs-u oak) ? but oak in Celtic = Cassano- Daru-/Deruo- Erku- what about Kwr-s-i ... To:...
The rook *kwr- for "oak" also exists in LAtin : Quercus. This word is attested in Sardinian dialect so it must be fairly old in LAtin Cassanos may be from...
At 3:00:32 PM on Monday, August 6, 2007, fournet.arnaud ... Except that <quercus> is from *perkWu-. [...] ... From PCelt. *kWresno- 'wood, tree', according to...
You said..... The rook *kwr- for "oak" also exists in LAtin : Quercus. Except that <quercus> is from *perkWu-. Exactly... and Perku in Celtic is Erku = Oak =...
Arnaud to Brian : Please see Below in the text. ... From: Brian M. Scott To: fournet.arnaud Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:13 AM Subject: Re[2]: Fw: [tied]...
At 8:16:12 AM on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, fournet.arnaud ... Which of course I do. And that should be OHG <foraha>. ... Note Skt. <parkati:-> 'heilger...
Germanic f is a "decent" pointer to *p but it is not decisive, if ones looks at number four from *kwettwer and wolf from wlkw-os. *p can arise from *kw, and...
Is there a connection between "sea" and "seal", other than obvious intuition. Both are said to be non-IE substrate words. As I remember, seal < *sealh, *sealx...
In Greek words with short u in two middle syllables, the second u>0. This would apply to words of more than 4 syllables (but then analogy on a nom. not...
Connection to Greek selakhos "shark" ? ... De: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 10 de Agosto de 2007...
... Are you saying this occurs in Gaulish? ... (yet) received theory. I'd say Cassano- is more likely connected with Greek kástanos 'chestnut tree', etc....
... How would that become crann? ... I'd say it's from *kart+ 'bend > be strong/hard' (also 'bend > plait/twist/weave etc.') like kástanos, similar to the...
At 9:11:49 AM on Thursday, August 9, 2007, fournet.arnaud ... True, it's not decisive, but both of those examples are explainable by a Gmc. tendency for *kW to...
... I've no idea why it has /a/. Neither had Thurneysen ('has not been explained and is doubtless secondary'), but perhaps more is known now. I don't have...
... Incidentally, the 'seal' word is *selxaz, with short *e (diphthongised to <eo> in non-Anglian OE, hence <seolh>; cf. ON selr). The only thing it shares...
So then the root is selx- but there is also Scots selkie "a seal-like creature, a were-seal", evidently from *selk- My question was based on the fact that -ai-...
