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

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:24:32 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
>On 05-01-17 14:02, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
>
>> Believe it or not, but you've just explained the otherwise
>> mysteriuous t/d vacillation in Baltic (Lith. nãmas, debesy~s,
>> devynì). What about publishing a short note, say, in _Baltistica_?
>
>Climatically Conditioned Consonant Changes at Subarctic Latitudes? ;)

The semantics fit: if you go out under the open sky
(debesys), you'll catch a cold, if you stay indoors (namas),
your nasal passage remains happily unobstructed.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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