Re: [tied] Re: Gold in PIE

On 04-11-10 22:32, whetex_lewx wrote:

> No, no, i had in my mind o <-> y, i know about t --> d :)

THAT's umlaut. The PGmc. vowel was *u in both cases. It was lowered to
/o/ in some contexts, and umlauted to /y/ in others.

> I don't know, maybe IE reconstruction is not so right. Maybe there
> were different reflexes, after all, green and yellow have some
> differences, i guess Indo-Europeans weren't douthomics (people who
> don't know differences between colours)...

A simpler system of basic colour terms doesn't mean that the people who
use it are colour-blind. Try running a Google search on "Berlin and Kay".

> about gyldan and etc... Lithuanian has some vowel mutations in
> different tences, so maybe it is related in Old English too.
>
> for ex.:
> gelsta (present tence)--> ge:^lo: (past tence) (from ge:la:) (to
> become yellow more and more)
> perka (pr.t.) --> pirko (p.t.) (purchase)
> ka:~ria --> ko:re:^ (to gibbet)
> and etc...

Do read up on the difference between "ablaut" and "umlaut".

> Yes, but it's not big problam, geltonas was isolated, but what about
> auksas -X --> s^
> ex --> is^, iz

What's your problem with these?

Piotr