Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>> It seems you forget what a role plays the suffix "-at" in DacoRom.
>> This suffix makes:
>> a) adjectives from substantives
>> b) adjectives from adjectives
>> c) name for animals; toponyms from adjectives
>
> And names of persons (bãiat, bãrbat, etc.)

Wie bitte? Bãrbat (man) is considered to be direct Latin "barbatus" (
ok, with semantical change) but there is a joke to see bãiat (boy) as
any Latin derivatives from something like to bath.

>
>>> No, it's correct. What's pure phantasy is to think that însura is
>>> related to "sister".
>>> I don't think incestuous marriages were ever the norm
>>> among Romanians.
>>
>> Not this way. From the original root derives surata and insura. Both
>> means semanticaly "to comme together"
>
> Phantasy. What Lat. uxor (*(y)ug-sor) and soror (*swe-sor) have in
> common
> is the element *sor "woman".

Was you the one who spoked about incest?:-) As you see there is nothing
unusual here . The common element is *sorV > Rom. *surV

>
>> Is the "y" used in Pokorny kind of "i" or "u" or "iu" or what kind of
>> sound is this?
>
> Pokorny doesn't use <y>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

I guess I use the variant given by Dan Milton, this is why I gave the
entry number which is 1709. There is used the "y".

Alex