Re: floor

From: stlatos
Message: 67968
Date: 2011-08-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
>

> Schrijver's article
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/62677
> has for the 'bird language:
> '*la&wað-, *a-lawð- 'lark' â€">
> Old Icelandic lævirki,
> Old English la:werce,
> Old High German le:rahha, le:rihha,
> Middle Dutch le:werke,
> Finnish leivo(nen);
> Gaulish (in Latin) alauda'
>
> But Grzegorz Jagodzinski
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/50427
> pointed to
> '5. "Lark". OE la:verce points at Gmc. *laiwVrk- which is also proved by Finnish leivonen.


>
> The UEW does not list 'leivonen' and its putative Uralic/FU cognates.
>
> Anybody want to try a reconstruction? I got a vague sense this is related to the kwiat/cvet "flower" set of words (although I'm not even certain there is such a group). From my favorite phoneme *λ- ?
>


Oddly, a borrowing of * la?uwiRga > Gmc * la?wirgo:N seems needed (with a? > a: (comparable to eX \ eh \ e? > e: in "Gmc e:2")). The Fin. doesn't suggest Gmc -ai- but:

*
la?wirgo:N
>>
lawilgo:
lawilGo:
lawilo:
lawi o: dis.
laiwo:

or sim.