Expletives (was Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven)

From: Andy Howey
Message: 27682
Date: 2003-11-27

Hi, Piotr:
 
How would one render "(male) Bovine excrement" in PIE, or, at least a phrase with similar meaning?

Just curious:

Andy Howey

Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
17-11-03 21:49, alex wrote:


> You did it as good as you could.
> The problem here is that from their actual form you can derive very well
> the Albanian forms. That means if they should have gone to the later
> changes due Balkan Romance there are some posibilites:
> - from the actual forms you could not derive anymore the Albanian words
> - they did not followed the changes of the Balkan Romance ( which I
> doubt)
> - there is no change "Balkan Romance" but the regular ( from PIE )
> changes of the language.
> - your stuff here.

Bovine excrement. Of course they have undergone all the Romanian changes
(vowel diphthongisations, the rhotacism of *l > r, etc.) and have not
been exempt from any of them. They look archaic when compared with their
Albanian cognates only in the sense that they have not undergone the
more recent ALBANIAN changes. I hope you are able to understand why.

Piotr

Piotr



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