Re[2]: [tied] Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 61638
Date: 2008-11-15

At 10:32:11 PM on Friday, November 14, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:

>> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>

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

>>>> At 4:55:27 PM on Friday, November 14, 2008, Rick
>>>> McCallister wrote:

>>>> [...]

>>>>> I seem to remember that the Breton word for "lively"
>>>>> begins with bis-,

>>>> Words that I can find whose senses include 'lively' are
>>>> <buhezek>, <bev>, <buan>, and <bliv>, with various
>>>> shades of meaning.

>> Do you have their etymology, and info on whether they're
>> Vannetais or not?

> The point was to compare it to Basque bizi, if I remember
> correctly. If there are archives for that list, you can
> find it there. I remember that Roz Frank came up with it.

Are you perhaps (mis)remembering this?

<http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0001&L=INDO-EUROPEAN&P=R10789&I=-3>

Brian