Re: Finnish KASKI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:01 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> You have some of the most bizarre correspondences!
>
> PIE *t should be Egyptian <s>??????
>
> Show me that pair of regular correspondences in any two languages in
the
> world.

1) English - English schoolboy German e.g that <-> das, two <-> <zwei>
/sfai/.

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Only if they had an incompetent teacher.

It is /tsWai/.

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2) If we can trust Savina's Dictionnaire tay-annamite-français, we
have Siamese /s/ - 'Tay' /th/. However, the less common Siamese /th/
also corresponds to 'Tay' /th/. I think Arnaud has an even better
example from some nearby Chinese dialects.

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So /th/ is /tH/, not /θ/???

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3) Conditional only, I'm afraid: Israeli Hebrew /t/ <-> Sephardic
Hebrew /s/ postvocalically.

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And is Hebrew <t> postvocaically not /θ/?

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4) Hebrew /S/ (shin) <-> Aramaic /t/, but only as reflexes of Semitic
*þ. I believe similar correspondences can be found in Arabic
dialects, only /s/ <-> /t/.

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Believe???

Then why are you writing as if Hebrew /S/ -> Aramaic /t/?


Patrick

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Richard