Re: [tied] Re: Other IE language with /w/

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 41394
Date: 2005-10-13



david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:



At http://www.namonet.com/dictionary.asp are listed 'awdan',
and 'awdêr', with no explanation given on the difference,
for the _verb_ 'to water', alongside the words 'aw' and 'av'
for the noun 'water', which are clearly based on *a:p-.

I wonder if the verb 'awdêr' isn't what Andrew heard.   

-- I know that with my confession that I am a schizophrenic I have little credibility (especially as of this confession), but I don't know how I can reassure you that she indeed said "wodder" with initial /w/, not postvocalic /w/.  But this happened several hours ago, so I am relying on my auditory memory.  Nevertheless, the sheer iincredibility of this exact coincidence so impressed me that I have little doubt that I heard correctly.  I said to her "So the words are the same in English and Kurdish?", which she did not deny, but said that "many words are the same, especially international ones".  I cannot believe that many words are the same, unless they are those "international" ones she mentioned, from Latin and French and the like.  I think I will revisit her tomorrow to reconfirm the Kurdish word for "water". 

 

Andrew