Re: [tied] Re: Venus [was: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right & 10)]

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 04-10-05 12:56, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > I think *wesperos is a regional dialectal
> compound
> > word using *wes- "west". Germanic has variants
> from
> > *wes-tos and *wes-(e)i, or something similar.
>
> What about East Baltic *vakaras and Slavic *vec^erU
> (+ the lexicalised
> case-form *vIc^era 'yesterday'), pointing to
> something like *wek(W)ero-
> (with slight complications)?

If there are complications (individual lexical
examples of analogy, dissimilation, assimilation and
metathesis) then:

wes+kWeros

Greek

kW>p

B-Slav

s>0 (dissim from -s or simpl of C-cluster)
kW>0 (dissim from w-)




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