Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:50:51 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>>> It seems you forget what a role plays the suffix "-at" in DacoRom.
>>> This suffix makes:
>>> a) adjectives from substantives
>>> b) adjectives from adjectives
>>> c) name for animals; toponyms from adjectives
>>
>> And names of persons (bãiat, bãrbat, etc.)
>
>Wie bitte? Bãrbat (man) is considered to be direct Latin "barbatus" (
>ok, with semantical change) but there is a joke to see bãiat (boy) as
>any Latin derivatives from something like to bath.

It ends in -at, doesn't it?

In Catalan, we have agermanat "brother (of a brotherhood"), afillat
"adoptive son, godson", cunyat "brother-in-law", etc.

>> Phantasy. What Lat. uxor (*(y)ug-sor) and soror (*swe-sor) have in
>> common
>> is the element *sor "woman".
>
>Was you the one who spoked about incest?:-)

A sister is a woman, no incest involved.

>I guess I use the variant given by Dan Milton, this is why I gave the
>entry number which is 1709. There is used the "y".

Pokorny uses an i with a semicircle under it (non-syllabic i).

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