From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 42639
Date: 2005-12-28
On 12/27/05, Patrick Ryan<proto-language@...> wrote:
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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: [tied] *b(e)u-/*bh(e)u:- 'to blow, swell'
*b(e)u-/*bh(e)u:- `to blow, swell'.
I. Reduplicated form *bu-beH2. 1a. Alb. <bubë> `silk-worm; roundworm;
nit; imaginary monster, bugaboo'; 1b. Diminutive form <bubël> `knot,
small lump'; 1c. Denominative bubë-ron `to deluce; 1d. deverbative
<bubur-ec> `bug, ant', as well as buburezë `ladybug, ladybird' (cf.
Swedish bobba `insect', bubba `laus'; Sl. buba `id.'); 1e. <bub-a-
zhel> `sacred scarab, dung beetle'. 1f. <burbuqe/bubuqe>, also short
form <buqe> `bud' is probably the result of reduplicated form *bubuk-
ya (*ky > q) or a result of two different form *bur- and *buk-
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Patrick:
So glad to see you used *beu- rather than *bheu- for these words having to
do with 'swollen'.
*bheu properly belongs only to the idea of 'location'.
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Even I see only variant form in *bheu-, nevertheless I like to add that Alb. <bubuqe/burbuqe> 'bud' has its cognate in South-Slavic <pupoljak> 'id.'.
Regards,
Konushevci