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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 35979
Date: 2005-01-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:
>
> > [about the problem of the reality of b7k7.]
> >
>
> > In South Slavic, it is attested in Slovene (dialectally) and in
> Croatian
> > (Cakavian and Stokavian). In Croatian, it is widely attested in
> dialects.
>
> If it is so widely attested, a Vegliote connection becomes pretty
> unattractive.

'Vacca' itself doesn't look like good Latin either (-a- in the stem,
geminate -k-). Common substrate?


Torsten