From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42659
Date: 2005-12-30
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From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:46 AM
Subject: [tied] English boy; Lith batis, Rom-Alb baci, bade
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If somebody can well derive English boy here please to do it....
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Patrick:
Marius, rather than the fantastically contrived etymologies currently in
vogue to avoid the terrible dragon of PIE glottal-catchers, namely, PIE *b,
the analysis I would offer is simply:
*be/o, 'be swollen' = 'testicle' + *y, inanimate dual
developing into *bhoy- in an attempt to elude the dragon.
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