Re: Gmc. w-/g-, j-,g-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> I collected what I could of suspicious-looking pairs of Gmc. words
> of similar meaning assuming an alternation w-/g- and j-/g- between a
> substrate and Gmc proper. First it should be mentioned
> 1) NGmc has 'Verschärfung' *-ww- > -gw- and *-jj- > *-gj-,
> Gothic has 'Verschärfung' *-ww- > -gw- and *-jj- > *-dj-
> 2) the Romance languages rendered Gmc w- as gw-.
>
> I've supplemented with Latin, many of the words have root vowel /a/
> and match similar words in /a/ in Latin
>
> de Vries
> [...]
> Note the frequent connections to Finnish.
>
> Torsten
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> Dear specialist of Caduceous-leaved Tree-forest Nephelococcygian,

Dear purveyor of Arnauzian postings

> May I suggest you focus on words :
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> - that have v /g alternations
> - that are Germanic, preferably of dubious IE origin
> - that have no connections outside Germanic within IE (Be it thu
> borrowing)
>
> Then we could see if Uralic makes sense as a source.

May I suggest you do it yourself.

> I think you need to discriminate thinner.

I don't use thinner. It's not good for your brain.


Torsten