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

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: alexandru_mg3
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:30 PM
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@>
> wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> > <snip>
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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' ...
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> If Albanian word 'karpã' means 'rock' and the Mountain Names was
> *Karpa:tya (currently /KarpaTi/) => guess what is the mneaning of
> Karpathians Mountains?
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> 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:
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> Marius
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> ***
> Patrick:
> In addition to other problems with this analysis, I do not believe

PIE -*tya: means 'made by'.

> As a nomen actionis, -*t-y- indicates 'something capable of being

repeatedly done (in the future)'; as a nomen agentis, 'someone
expected to repeatedly do something (in the future)'.

> ***
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Patrick, I cannot see *Karpa:tya: Mountains 'The Rocky Mountain' (<
Albanian karpë 'rock') as 'a nomen actionis' or 'a nomen agentis'.
Do you ? :)

I hope that you are well (because seems that something wrong
happened to you in the latest time...)

By the way 'what are the additional other problems'?

Marius

P>S> Are the attested stone sickles Ok for you, now?