Re: [tied] Re: Andere

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:25:46 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 04:54:22 +0000, loreto bagio
>> <bagoven20@...> wrote:
>>
>> >To bother Greek-Basque associations again, how would Basque (h)
>andi
>> >and Spanish 'gigante' (English 'giant' from Gk 'gigantikos'
>> >or 'gigas') relate?
>>
>> Not. Basque handi (also haundi) comes from *and- plus
>> adjectival suffix *-i. I'm pretty sure the root *and must
>> be a borrowing, because old *nd/*nt gives Basque /d/ (e.g.
>> *s^un- "to smell" -> sudurr "nose" (< *s^un + tur/dur).
>>
>
>Vennemann proposes a Proto-Vasconic *grandi > (h)andi was loaned into
>Romance (grand-) and Germanic (great, gross-).

That's completely impossible.

>Now you've made an orphan out of it;-)

If you insist on a proto-Vasconic *grandi (> gara(d)i), Bq.
garai means "high, tall".

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