Re: [tied] Lead and Purse

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:40:02 +0000, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> I also don' t quite see how "all later variants of the word
>> in Greek [molubdos, bolubdos, molibos, molibdos, bolimos,
>> bolibos] can be derived from the shape attested in Mycenaean
>> [mo-li-wo-do]".
>
>The most promising source seems to be something close to pre-Latin
>*pluB-no-, borrowed as *bolubno- (approximately) by the non-IE
>intermediary, and then as bolubdos, molubdos, etc. by Greek. Such an
>etymological trajectory would minimise the number or
>arbitrary "mutations" required to derive the attested forms.

To explain the first vowel of Basque berun (possibly *belum
or even *belum(b)o, *belom(b)o) I still think one should
reckon with the other lead-word *bli:wo ~ *ble:wo (G. Blei).
According to the Basque rules for breaking up initial
clusters (and the Iberian ones were similar), we would
expect *blo-/*plo- > bolo-, *blu-/plu- > bulu- and ble-/ple-

> bele-. The Basque words looks like a cross between

*belebo and *bolom(b)o.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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