[tied] Re: Latin ibex akin to Portuguese bezerro?

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 35977
Date: 2005-01-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
> On 05-01-17 11:26, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
>
> > I agree enthusiastically, and there's no need to confine
ourselves to
> > onomatopoeic roots. Besides, there are traces of alternation *-
eNC-/*-
> > e^C- in Slavic, and in Lithuanian dialects alternations like -ei-
/-en-
> > (eN)-, -au-/-an-(-aN-) etc. are quite often, so we may be dealing
> > with a Balto-Slavic phenomenon here.
>
> The common cold can easily lead to any such alternation by stopping
up
> some of the noses of a given speech community :-). Aa... aaa... a-
choooo!

But one usually finds a gilde in place of an etymological nasal in
such alternations, not vice versa. :)

Sergei