Re: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 70034
Date: 2012-09-05

Greek enydra (beside hydra) show a nasal prefixation, obscurely related to Latin lutra and ontra.

JS Lopes


De: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 5 de Setembro de 2012 15:31
Assunto: [tied] Re: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

 
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...> wrote:

> > Why would the same word develop in Polish into both <Odra> and
> > <wydra>?

> That's a good question! Yet, don't expect people being only driven by religious fanaticism and by a nationalistic-cum-chauvinistic agenda to be able to reply to it.

How did the initial vowel become long in Balto-Slavonic? In Sorbian, the jer /U/ would have yielded /o/ in this word.

Richard.