Re: b/m alternation in Thacian, Illyria and Abanian

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:43:47 +0200, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rick McCallister
>To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [tied] Re: b/m alternation in Thacian, Illyria and Abanian
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>
>I'm originally from the Midwest, where the only fish
>you see are catfish, bluegill and bass, and my family
>is from Appalachia, where they don't eat fish --at
>least in that part of West Virginia. So the only fish
>I ever saw as a kid were in the form of fishsticks.
>
>========
>I suppose :
>Flétan (kind of sole) means Flat(-fish) ?

The only online etymologies I can find (all for Spanish
<fletán>, a fish which in Spain came out of relative
anonymity after the "guerra del fletán" between Spain and
Canada) derive it from a Latin <fletis>, which I cannot find
in Lewis & Short.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
miguelc@...