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

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Gmc. w-/g-, j-,g-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 6:44 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ========
> >
> > Dear specialist of Caduceous-leaved Tree-forest
> Nephelococcygian,
> Dear purveyor of Arnauzian postings
>
> > May I suggest you focus on words :
> >
> > - 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.
>

So, then, go ahead, stick with thicker, see if we care ;p

>
> Torsten