Re: [tied] Re: Non-IE elements in Scandinavian

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From: João Simões Lopes Filho

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:38 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Non-IE elements in Scandinavian

Joao wrote:

The problem with reconstruction is that many non-IE word surely was adopted by PIE language, and passed through daughter-languages. Cf. Latin Caballus, that was not a Latin word, but substituted Latin Equus in all Neolatin languages (Portuguese Cavalo, French Chevau, Italian Caballo).

 

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Not completely. Romanian has cal < caballu-, but also iapâ < equa-. Sardinian has ebba, too.

 

Piotr