On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 18:29:02 +0200, alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>In Avestan there are just two words where initialy the k^w > sp:
>k^won > spa
>k^wen > spenta
Pokorny gives:
1. spa:(y)- aufschwellen (p. 593)
2. spa:- Hund (632)
3. spae:ta- weiss (629)
spiti-doiTra- helläugig (629)
4. sp&nta- heilig (630)
spa(:)nah- heiligkeit (630)
>if my data are not wrong then we have:
>
>k^wes > susi
Av. sus^i is from *k^us-
>k^wei-1 > kay
From *kWei(t)-(1), of course.
>k^wei-3 > savah
No such word in Pokorny.
>further based on the data I have, one can see that in Baltic we have as
>follow:
>
>k^wei-1 > svins
svi:ns is Latvian!
>k^wei-2 > s^vyks^teti
s^výks^ti
>k^wei-3 > sviesti
s^vie~sti
>k^wes > s^us^inti
From *k^us-
>k^wet > kutinetis
From *kut-
In other words, you can barely transcribe a single entry correctly, you
invent entries that are not there [not in the printed version at least],
you don't know that not all words starting with *k^w- are listed in Pokorny
under lemmata starting with *k^w- (you must also check *k^eu-), and that
not all words listed in Pokorny under lemmata starting with *k^w- begin
with *k^w- (some of them start with *k^u-), you don't know that s^ > s in
Latvian, you can't distinguish *k^ from *k from *kW, and on top of all that
you have the nerve to contradict me... Tsk, tsk.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...