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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29314
Date: 2004-01-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> 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?

Why is why I want to explain as a loan from a Semitic masc., with
mimation (nunation?)

Torsten