--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Actually, one would _not_ expect /a/ in Thracian
> when PIE had *e. Unlike Indo-Iranian, Thracian did
> not merge PIE *e with *a and *o, and PIE *ek^wo- is
> reflected there as <esba-> -- a regular Thracian
> development, as opposed to I-Ir. *aCwa-.
*****GK: I realized that *ek^wo gave Thr. "esvas"
("ezvas") after posting by checking a Thracian word
list. But I also found Thr. "asn-" (from IE *eg'hom)
(I,me); and Thr "zan-" (from IE *g'en) (to give birth,
a kin) which seems to suggest that you can also get
Thr. "a" from IE "e". The "a"-"e" issue interested me
because I had noticed that some Thracian words could
be rendered by either (darsas or dersas 'courageous';
tarpas or terpas 'a gap, crack').BTW I also found one
instance where IE "a" became Thracian "e" (*kapro- =
ebros 'goat').*******
(PG) I think the Scythian soothsayers were more
likely
> "non-male" (*a:nara- < *n-h2nero-) than "un-Aryan".
*****GK: That certainly sounds much better than
"non-Aryan". But I wonder why the "e" here since Greek
and Iranian shared the privative.*****
>
> Piotr
******GK One more interesting point from that Thracian
word list. It says that in Thr. "bor-" means
"mountain" and claims that "Hyperborean" actually
means "those living behind the mountains". What do you
think of this?*****
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