Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN

From: Joao
Message: 29312
Date: 2004-01-09

Germanic *sibun is an anomaly that remains unexplained. Why a very usual cluster like -pt- didnt develop into expected *siftun.  Is this reflect an archaism of Germanic or an inovation?
 
And we can add to this oddness the greek hebd- besides hept-.
 
Joao SL
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@......>
wrote:
>
> Michael:
> >So Glen, do you think that we can't really differentiate whether
the
> >northern and western (including Celtic and Germanic) substrate was
> >Semitic or Berber or any other Afro-Asiatic language(s) for that
> >matter?  Can any non-Indo-European Germanic and Celtic words be
shown
> >to have a Semitic or other Afro-Asiatic etymology?
>
> Well, like I said, there seem to be words in Basque that show some
> Semitic connections as strange as it sounds. I don't know about
anything
> uniquely Semitic in Gemanic and Celtic that wasn't already
inherited from
> IE. Anyone else have suggestions?
>

Gothic sibun, _without_ the Sem. fem. -t-.

Torsten




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