[tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marco Moretti [mailto:marcomoretti69@...]
> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:36 AM
>
> > Molis in Lithuanian has a long vowel -o-, if I'm not wrong, in
> > Lithuanian a vowel /o/ is always long.
>
> Except in new borrowings and "international" words, where a newly

coined

> marginal phoneme (non-tense) /O/ (vs. native tense (historically,

also in

> some dialects, long) /o/)comes out.

But molis is not a new borrowing or indernational words, so you
simply cannot compare it with the toponymical item.

Marco