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

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61639
Date: 2008-11-15

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences
> To: "Rick McCallister" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 10:47 PM
> 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


That's part of it. There was more, I remember some of the discussion was off-list. The question then was whether or not Basque bizi, bixi was from the Celtic or some other IE language word for "live"