Re: [tied] Brittonic duck [was: Risoe fo the Feminine]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:44:10 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>29-04-2004 15:55, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> So perhaps Greek had *s- in aietos too: *sh2wyet-os,
>> syllabified as *sawyetos > aietos (no h- because of
>> dissimilation with inner -/h/- from *y and/or *w?). Come to
>> think of it, Brythonic "duck" has h- (We. hwyad, OCorn. hoet,
>> Bret. houad), left unexplained in IEW, but likely from *s-.
>
>But how does one get <hwyad> from anything like *s(h2)w(i)jeto-? While I
>agree that an *s- should be recontructed, initial *sw- would have
>yielded Welsh chw-; whereas *sawjeto- won't work vowel-wise. The
>Brittonic vocalism points to *sei- rather than atnything else, and the
>full Celtic pre-form might be something like *seiPato-, for example.

My knowledge of Brythonic is limited, although it's true that
the normal development is wy < *üï < *e: < *ei.

Anybody got Pedersen KG I 55 at hand?


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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