--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> This can well be a loan from early Indo-Iranian or pre-IIr (*ec'wa-
or *ac'wa-, still with an affricate > Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe *cH&, as
well as Proto-Dagestanian *Wci).
>
> [Glen] What do you base your reconstruction of Proto-AbAd "5" on?>
> > I also think that IndoT was being affected by a language I call
> > "Abadha" which would be the ancestor to AbkhazAdyghe (aka
NorthWest > > Caucasian) and Hattic. There's one word I find
interesting in> > IE: *ekwo- "horse". If the word is old, it would be
*kw in> > Old IE. I notice that AA seems to have *c^W as the word for
> > horse. I propose that it was originally *k^w in Abadha and that
> > palatal *k^ became AA *c^.
HORSE
Latin equus 'horse', O.Irish ech, Toch. yuk, yakwe :: Lithuanian
as'va` (fem.), IIr *ac'ua > E.Ir. aspa, Vedic azva
What is the direction of change?
zv- to quu-?
Vedic. zv-: Avest. -sp- : O.Pers. -s- : Lith. -sw-, Latin -qu-
[kw] : Gothic -hv- OHG -h-, O.Irish -ch-, Gaul. -p-, Toch. -k/kw-,
IE *k'w
FIVE
http://www.zompist.com/euro.htm
pan~co (Nahali), *penkwe (PIE), pompe- (Oscan), *pempe (Gaulish),
qenqe (Proto-celtic), pan~ (Tocharian), pese (Albanian), penki
(Lithuanian), piac (Belarussian), panj (Yidgha), pamca
(Ardhama_gadhi), poi~ (Shina), h.amish (Akkadian), peson (Mon), panch
(Birhor)
What is this Abadha? Any coincidence possible with an ancient region
in India called avadh (oudh) which was also referred to as kos'ala
(cf. kosi river). In the tradition of Ramayana, kos'ala was ruled by
Das'aratha (lit. ten chariots).