Re: [tied] Re: cardinal points

From: alex_lycos
Message: 21667
Date: 2003-05-10

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>> the germanic word for "owl"
>> which is "uhu" ( se room. "buhã")


> From Latin bufo, bubo

intervocalic "b" mentained , more /b/ > /h/ ?
For /f/ it seems fore posible but just only when followed by /i/, again
this /i/ which changed a lot.


>
>> see Gothic "azyma" ( unsalated bread)
>> and Rom. "azima",
>
> From Greek a-zymos

Greek "y" is reprezented as "u" in Ro. Or wich period of Greek you mean
now?

>
>> see Germanic "mehl" rom. "mãlai",
>
> mãlai "cornflour", mãlãieT "mellow, soft". Unlikely to have anything
> to do with Mehl

it is mehl. malai si Meismehl.
>
>> see german "fotze",
>> Rom. "puTã"
>
> puTã < Latin putea "pit(s)"

cam pute.