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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
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> > Kuhn points out that the latest-acquired domesticated plants and
> > animals seem to have root /a/. That would speak for all such
words
> > being loans.
>
> Could you give a little list - and a specific reference? That
could
be
> very helpful. Any possible connection with Schrijver's language of
> bird names?
>
*dam- "zähmen", *ag- "treiben", *ar- "pflügen".
alternating with a:, ai, au :
OE *a:te "Hafer" < *aito:(n), got. atisk "Saatfeld", lat
ador "Spelt".
*agros "Acker", *bhars-/*bharis (lat. far "Spelz", germ.
*bariz "Gerste", gk phe:ron "Nahrung" < *bharsom), gr.
kapos/ke:pos "Garten", germ. *ho:Bo: "Hufe", gr. ákhne: germ.
*ah(a)no:/*ag(a)no: "Spreu" lat. agna "Ähre", lat. acus "Spreu",
germ.*ahs-/**ahis- "Ähre", gr. kaláme: germ *halmaz OBg slama
"Halm, Stroh". Of these only agros is found in IndIr.
Lat. fa:ba "Bohne", ra:pa "Rübe"
gr aiks etc "goat"
lat. caper "goat"
MHG hatele etc "goat"
lat. haedus etc "goat"
*ghans- "goose"
*anat-/*natja "duck"
Of these, the duck word shows the aCC-/CaC- alternation
charateristic
of the words from Schriijver's language of bird names.
Many of them belong to a group of words that have /a/ in both Latin
and Germanic: ad/at, aqua/ahwa, arcus/earh etc. Among them is
Latin annum, Gothic athn- "year", to which I'll compare Basque
adin "age". This is obviously not a Basque loan from Latin.
Further, a lot of water words: aqua, lacus, stagnum, na:vis,
na:re/nata:re, vadum, mare. + Greek: *sandaz, *o:fero, OE
no:sa "peninsula" vs gr. ne:sos (For some reason, all these occur on
my list of possible Austronesian cognates).
And further, Kuhn points out that in the system of Old European
hydronyms, /a/ is very frequent, especially initially. Obviously,
the last invading wave of IE-speakers must have arrived after
pre-PIE /a/ was finished getting ablauted, leaving a vacant
place in the vowel system.
Torsten