Re: [tied] Re: OE *picga

1) The Austronesian *beRek is sometimes shown as *beGek.
2) I remember to have read in some book that *pork^os < *perk^- "to dig"

Joao SL
Rio, Brazil

----- Original Message -----
From: danjmi <dmilt1896@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:22 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: OE *picga


> Thanks for clearing up the spotted pig situation!
>
> "'Modo sic, modo sic', inquit rusticus: varium porcum perdiderat."
> (Petronius Satyricon XLV)
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> --- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> wrote:
> > The root is Pokorny's *perk^ [2] (with the variant *prek^-)
> 'gesprenkelt, bunt'; the cognates include Lat. perca, Gk. perke:
> 'perch', Middle Irish erc 'speckled, dark red; trout, salmon' < *
> ercos < *perk^os, and a number of terms describing colours or
> coloration patterns, such as Old Indo-Aryan pRs'ni- 'variegated,
> speckled, spotted'. PIE *pork^os meant 'piglet' rather than 'pig' in
> general. The piglets of the European wild boar have
> characteristic longitudinal stripes and spots for camouflage. For
> all we know, *pork^os meaning '(wild) piglet' may have existed
> even before the domestication of swine.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: danjmi
> > To: cybalist@...
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:45 PM
> > Subject: [tied] Re: OE *picga
> >
> >
> > --- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> wrote:
> > >*pork^os has a plausible IE derivation and interpretation ('a
> spotted critter').
> > I presume *peik^- is involved. In my naivete, I would have
> stumbled at the 'r' and thought of 'pigs' before 'porkers'. Tell us
> more, please!
> > I believe that spotted hides are found in domesticated
> rather than wild swine and *pork^os refers to these, but I'm not
> sure of either fact.
> > Dan Milton
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