The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:27 AM
> Subject: Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))
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> > If I limit myself to words starting with *ka- in Pokorny, I see

nothing

> > expressive, young, not widely spread or loaned about *kaiko-

"blind",

> > *kailo- "whole", *kal(no) "hard (skin)", *kamp- "bend", *kan-

"sing",

> > *kand- "white", *kantHo- "edge", *kap- "take", *kapro "male

animal", *kar-

> > "chide", *kar&- "praise", *kars- "scratch", *kat- "plait,

chain", *kaul-

> > "hollow". And that's only scratching the surface.
>
> I don't want to go into this discussion. It has already been done

by others

> (like Lubotsky). It is interesting that Slavic for instance has

only the

> root *kaylo- from all of these if I am not mistaken just of the

top of my

> head... Leiden is down for the moment but I think it would be very
> significant to see which lgs show the reflexes of these words. Let

me

> guess - Italic, Germanic and Celtic mostly...

kaiko: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Baltic, Indic
kailo: Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic
kal(no): Italic, Celtic, Slavic, Albanian, Indic
kamp: Italic, Germanic, Greek, Baltic, Slavic, Indic
kan: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Slavic
kand: Italic, Celtic, Greek, Indic (*skand-)
kantHo: Italic, Celtic, Slavic, Greek
kap: Italic, Germanic, Greek, Baltic, Albanian, Indic
kapro: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek
kar: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Tocharian (?)
kar&: Germanic, Greek, Baltic, Indic
kars: Italic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Indic
kat: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic
kaul: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Greek

Isn't there a bias whereby if Pokorny could reconstruct *k or *kW,
he would reconstruct *kW? I recall Piotr mentioning it. There's
quite a Balto-Slavonic bias, isn't there!

Richard.