[tied] Re: -affa (was: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > Wouldn't *ekWos have yielded Sanskrit *aka-, Avestan *aka-?

Also,

> > there'd still be the labial element to explain. Moreover, I'm

not

> > aware of any argument against a derivation from *o:k^u 'swift'.
>
> That is why expect from a root as *h2akWa- with Sanskrit "aka" but

a root as

> *kWetuer
> yelded an "c^ature", so the inconsistence is here too. This is why

I asked

> if there is
> not a later palatalisation of "k", "c^" to "s" in Sanskrit.
>
> >
> > I suspect you're just trying to dismiss the Thracian names

believed

> > to be compounded with the word for horse.
> >
> > Richard.
>
> No. There has been no Thracian "esba-" as horse. At least the

(stil

> questionable) Dacian inscriptions speak about "keleres" and

means "being on

> the horses, ridding", thus the root has been "kal-" for "horse" (

sustained

> by Greek and Latin as well). I will like to avoid connections to

any

> Thracian things now because I won't find properly to bring in

discusion a

> subject based on questionable inscriptions and on simple guesses,

regardless

> how educated these guesses are.
>
> Alex

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As far as I know, persian word for horse is <asb>, word that inspire
one of the best Albanian scholar, Sami Frasheri in XIX century, much
known in Turkish culture as Shemsedin Sami, to try to find analogies
with Turkish verb <esmek> 'to blow'.

Konushevci