Re: Finnish KASKI

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56097
Date: 2008-03-28

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Wordingham

--- 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/.

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.

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

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/.

Richard

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When there is no glottalized or emphatic
in the neighborhood,
PIE *k *t *p (unvoiced stops)
regularly become unvoiced spirants in Eg

ma:t > m_s
sep-tem = s_f_(x_w)

*k can be exemplified by
s-k_b "to create, give shape"
Eg x_p_r
s-k_r_b "scarabee"
Eg x_p_r

There is no -th- (th-ing) in Eg
s is the dental spirant.

Arnaud
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