Re: [tied] Lead and Purse

From: Petusek
Message: 36854
Date: 2005-03-25

As for "Lead": Václav Machek adds Romany (Slovak) "moleva" and speculates about  Hungarian "ólom", talking about possible Pre-IE substratum expression. What do you, people, think about this Romany "moleva"? By the way, any historical phonology of Romany dialects anywhere on-line, please? Thank you.
 
Petusek
 
P.S.: Some adventurous speculators try to connect those to Slavic *olovo, Lith. álvas, Lat. alvs, OPr. alvis (loans < Slavic?), others think OHG ëlo "yellow", Lat. albus "white", Gr. alphós are related to *olovo - this is, perhaps, much more probable than that, isn't it?
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From: alex
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Lead and Purse

Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> See:
> http://www.unc.edu/~melchert/molybdos.pdf (or corresponding html).
>    "Greek 'molybdos' is derived from Lydian."
>   Melchert traces the Mycenaean word to a Lydian color term, and
> rejects a relationship with Latin 'plumbum' or Basque 'berun'.
>    Sounds plausible to me, but would like an expert opinion.
> Dan Milton


the lead comparative with other ligatures is "maleable", that it is his
first attribute which will caracterise it. It has as well as no
resistance, can be easely malformed, etc, etc.
Question: does the Lydian "molybdos" means "weak"? I think at the first
part of the word which is "moly-" and _can_ means "maleable". The
meaning would be sustained by the Germanic words "blei", "blech" and the
meaning "maleable" of a word as *bleg which could yeld in Germanic
"blei" and "blech".

Alex




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