Re: Bird (was: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian)

> some of Holzer's Temematic
> words have strange Noreen alternations in Germanic too, ie.
> PIE pork^o- vs. Du. varken, Ger. Verkel, Gothic barg-s "pig"
>
> Torsten
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> I have made the hypothesis that PIE had a nasal prefix,
> most probably #m- (as in PAA) (unprovable because of assimilation)
> this could be the explanation.

What semantics would it have? Semantics-less morphemes are suspect.

> In that case bridd could be good Germanic out of *m-pet-ro >
> *bhedhro.

What's with the t > dh? And how would you explain the /k/ of th Du.,
Ger. words?

> I didn't know about these Noreen alternations,

Several authors mention the phenomenon, but without a name, so I made
up the term. You won't find it outside cybalist.


Torsten