Re: [tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

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From: "Marco Moretti" <marcomoretti69@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory


> Now, I have studied something on Pokorny. I have found no etymology
> for zot. For zonj� there is a simple derivation from *gWenja:, from
> the IE root for "woman". It is even more simpler than my proposal and
> needs no root *djeu-, but I have some doubt about its reliability.
> Perhaps there are other problems. Your criticism of the evolution
> of /eu/ seems to be right. I'll reexamine all the matter later on.

*gWenja: wouldn't work (there's no way of getting from *e to <o>). One could
consider vr.ddhied *gWe:nja: (cf. Germanic *kwe:ni-), but if we explain
<zonj�> in this way, we're left with no means of explaining <zot>, and any
etymology that focusses on one of these paired terms and ignores the other
is suspect, given the fact that masculine *pot(-i)- and feminine *pot-ni-h2
are a very ancient and well-attested pair showing a strikingly similar
correspondence.

Piotr










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