From: luenpasanta
Message: 31669
Date: 2004-04-02
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>wrote:
> >loaned
> > > >Vennemann proposes a Proto-Vasconic *grandi > (h)andi was
> > intoWhich
> > > >Romance (grand-) and Germanic (great, gross-).
> > >
> > > That's completely impossible.
> >
> > But, but! Vennemann has writen a long, fine article about it!
> > part is impossible, the PVasc. > Basque or the PVasc. > Latin /,
> > Germanic?
> >
> > (btw the PGmc should be *graut-)
> >
> >
> > > >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".
> > >
> >
> > How about this:
> > "Language of geminates": *grandi-
> > loan into early Proto-Vasconic
> > *grandi- > (h)andi
> > loan into late Proto-Vasconic
> > *grandi- > gara(d)i-
> > loan into Proto-Latin (north of the Alps)
> > *grandi > grandi-
> > loan into Proto-Germanic
> > *grandi > *grĂ£ut- > *graut-
> >
> > so that the "language of geminates" becomes the donor? The
> structure
> > of *grandi- fits.
> >
> > I think I should presuppose here that the "language of geminates"
> is
> > not the IE Nordwestblock, but its non-IE predecessor.
> >
>
> In case you've been following the "grave" discussion (Greek tumpho-
> tapho-) in Austronesian, you will probably have noticed theIE?)
> similarity of the structure of that root complex to that of (non-
> Nordwestblock root complexes (single/geminated, voiced/unvoiced,pre-
> nasalised/non-prenasalised). If that indeed is where that rootthe
> complex belongs, we can identify the donor language with that of
> megalith-builders.Good Afternoon from Bilbao.
>
> Torsten