From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 470
Date: 1999-12-07
----- Original Message -----From: Christopher GwinnSent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:27 PMSubject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Odp: Odp: Semantic fieldsI on't know, Piotr, the Celtic forms look o.k. to me (I mainly specialize in Celtic languages)
Well, I don't specialise in Celtic, and I haven't got any Old Irish dictionary. I do know, however, that the Goidelic languages have a sophisticated system of adverbs of place based on demonstrative pronouns, e.g. OIr t-úas 'higher', s-úas 'upwards', an-úas 'from above' (please correct me if I've got them wrong), so it was my hunch that forms like Pokorny's tuas-cert were more likely connected with the adverb túas than with *teu-sto- or the like. I never trust Pokorny's Baltic and Slavic forms (I've found many of them to be distorted or nonexistent) and even his treatment of Old English (this is what I specialise in) leaves something to be wished. I'm just used to double-checking his data, that's all.Piotr