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

--- 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