Re: [tied] Re: Latin ibex akin to Portuguese bezerro?

On 05-01-17 11:26, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> I agree enthusiastically, and there's no need to confine ourselves to
> onomatopoeic roots. Besides, there are traces of alternation *-eNC-/*-
> e^C- in Slavic, and in Lithuanian dialects alternations like -ei-/-en-
> (eN)-, -au-/-an-(-aN-) etc. are quite often, so we may be dealing
> with a Balto-Slavic phenomenon here.

The common cold can easily lead to any such alternation by stopping up
some of the noses of a given speech community :-). Aa... aaa... a-choooo!

Piotr