[tied] Re: Of cows and living

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> On 2006-02-21 16:51, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Why to exclude a PIE *melk(') with k(') for the Germanic words

(see

> > Slavic *melk-o) ?
>
> Because of Grimm's Law. PIE *k(^) becomes Germanic *x (h), which

may

> then become *g if originally preceded by an unaccented syllable.

For

> example, something like *mélko- would have become PGmc. *melxa-,

and

> something like *ml.k(^)ó- would have become PGmc. *mulga-. The

actually

> attested Germanic forms (*melk-/*mulk-) perfectly match Lat.

mulgeo:,

> Gk. amelgo: and Skt. {mr.j-}, as well as the Slavic root *melz-

and

> Lith. mélz^-/mi`lz^- 'to milk'; it's the Slavic noun *melko that

is the

> odd man out, most plausibly explained as a loan from a non-satem

dialect

> with *k from *g^. Only Germanic meets that description, and what's

more,

> Germanic has just the right noun with the right meaning. That
> practically clinches the case.
>

Are you sure Verner applies in this case? I can't think of another
Germanic example that alternates stops in -lT- or -rT-.


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