From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19002
Date: 2003-02-22
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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"
Take *pors'as "pig" (Finn. porsas). The PIE form was *pork^os, the Proto-Satem form *pors'os, the Proto-Indo-Iranian form *pars'as (attested in Saka and Kurdish). The Finnic form fits none exactly.
A minor thing. The Proto-Satem (and proto-Indo-Iranian) reflex of *k^ must have been something like *[c] or *[ts'] (palatal stop > affricate, the latter preserved in Nuristani). Note FU *porc'as ~ *pors'as, and Finnish -deksan/-deksän < *teksa, which Koivulehto interprets as early Proto-Iranian (something like *dätsa, with *ts > *ks).
Piotr