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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
> I'm happy with DEX. L. *adjunare may have a asterisk, but it's
> not just ad hoc for Rom., but supported by Sp. 'ayunar' (and
> perhaps
> Fr. 'jeuner').
> In my previous posting, I'd missed Lewis and Short's
> "jejunus , a, um, adj. [kindr. to Sanscr. yam, refrenare,
> cohibere; intens. yanyam, Bopp. Gloss. p. 276, a] , fasting,
hungry,
> abstinent, not partaking of food."
> Bopp is really going back to the pioneer days, and this
probably
> shouldn't be taken too seriously, but there it is.
> Dan
soso, if not jejunus, then *adjunus since Spanish form will put all
the ecuation in a VLat which is not excluded at all and Albanian form
just will confirme it:-))
BTW, I will never understand why the reconstructed forms appears to
be just Latin "ad" + word which begins with a consonant but never an
word which begin with an Latin "ad" + word where the initial sound is
a vowel. If I will suggest that in a such word the elidation of "d"
or "c" (< ac) won't be explanable at all anymore it shouldbe
considerate as blasphemy:-)
Thus the most loved reconstructions are with "adC-" and "exC-" but
never "adV-" or "exV-", at least not in Romanian.
Just an observation so far:-)
Alex