CARDINAL POINTS (ex-Venus, ex-Why borrow 'seven'?ex-IE right & 10)]

From: Joao
Message: 34507
Date: 2004-10-06

But, if Greek hesperos < *weskWeros, we should expect a Latin *vesquer or *vescor, and dialectal Greek *hesteros. Latin vesper could came from a Osco-Umbrian *vesperos, but the Balto-Slavic would not fit (*wekWeros, *wokWoros)
 
What are the Celtic names for Cardinal points?
 
Joao SL
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Whalen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: 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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