Re: [tied] Ossetic Farn

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11953
Date: 2001-12-28

No idea. Ossetic is very conservative in this respect (*xWa- > Iron xo-, Digor xWa-). Most likely a loan (e.g. Median *farna-).
 
Piotr
 
 
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Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: [tied] Ossetic Farn

The Ossetic 'farn' is supposed to be a cognate of xWar&nah-, but if so, does anybody know why *xW resulted in |f| rather than |x| here as it usually does, as in 'xor', "the sun"?