--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>
> On 2006-03-29 10:46, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > That looks similar to *gWem-, *gWah2- "go". Pulleyblank has
proposed
> > an Old Chinese cognate for that. Further, it's the same semantic
field.
>
> Shhh, this is getting dangerously close to the central topic of my
> article ;-)
Here's Pulleyblank:
"
7. GO, COME
Ch. wâng .. EMC wuaân, < *wàân,? 'go,' yú.. EMC waâ < *wàG 'go (to);
to; at, in,' Tib. h.on'-ba 'come,' Burm. wan, 'enter; go in; come
in' (Bodman 1980:81) : IE *gWa:-, *gWem- 'go, come,' OI jíga:ti,
gámati, gácchati, 'goes,' Gk. báino: 'go,' `ébe: 'went,' Lat.
venio: 'come,' Eng. come, etc. For the development of PIE *gW from
*w, as well as *n,W, see Pulleyblank (1993b).
"
As I quoted earlier, Sino-Tibetan in general has a number of roots
with n-infix/no infix doublets.
I wouldn't want you to publish without knowing all the facts ;-)
Torsten