Re[2]: [tied] Origin of *marko- Margus murg ma'rgas amurg

At 9:53:31 AM on Thursday, April 17, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> In other words, you ignore the large majority of the
>> evidence. This isn't scholarship.

> Brian a loan of *marg- in Germainc g>k gave *mark in
> Germanic ....

> This is sure!

> OK?

No. See again the part that you snipped:

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>>> or a loaned g- after g>k finished was loaned as what ?

>> As voiced velar /G/, typically (one of its major
>> allophones soon became [g]); only exceptionally as /k/
>> (Goth. Kre:ks, etc. for 'Greek').

> IF Greek BECAME Kre:ks in Gothic
> a loan marG(u)- WOULD-GIVE marK- > Marco-manni, isn't it?

No. The most you can claim is 'MIGHT EXCEPTIONALLY GIVE';
'WOULD GIVE' is right out.

> (see ALSO the clusters gr/rg <-> kr/rk)

> Of course I ignore 'exceptionally'

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Brian