From: alex_lycos
Message: 21667
Date: 2003-05-10
>> the germanic word for "owl"intervocalic "b" mentained , more /b/ > /h/ ?
>> which is "uhu" ( se room. "buhã")
> From Latin bufo, bubo
>Greek "y" is reprezented as "u" in Ro. Or wich period of Greek you mean
>> see Gothic "azyma" ( unsalated bread)
>> and Rom. "azima",
>
> From Greek a-zymos
>it is mehl. malai si Meismehl.
>> see Germanic "mehl" rom. "mãlai",
>
> mãlai "cornflour", mãlãieT "mellow, soft". Unlikely to have anything
> to do with Mehl
>cam pute.
>> see german "fotze",
>> Rom. "puTã"
>
> puTã < Latin putea "pit(s)"