[tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

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> From: Abdullah Konushevci
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 4:44 PM
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels
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> Obviously these are not the ones that Alexandru is talking about,

but

> it does seem to me that Rocky Mountains (aka Rockies) is very

likely.

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> Patrick:
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> Not so obvious to me.
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Patrick, in Romanian there is a term 'Gicã-Contra' ...

If Albanian word 'karpã' means 'rock' and the Mountain Names was
*Karpa:tya (currently /KarpaTi/) => guess what is the mneaning of
Karpathians Mountains?

But the point here was the meaning of suffix -tya: 'made by'
(rocks, in the above case) that can be applied only to nouns not to
verbs...and the discussion was about kmesë...< *ak^-mo:n-tya:

Marius