From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 45177
Date: 2006-06-30
Many new a's come from syllabic consonants:
> Welsh <carw> "stag", Latin <cervus>
"horn" words like srva:- in Avestan and sirwis in
OPrussian show syllabic r._______________________I thought IE *k^r.w- would yield *cryw- in Welsh. Or is there a different development before *w?I am aware (and indicated above) that Stuart Mann's book has many questionable and some outright wrong etymologies (and often shows a lack of understanding of IE phonology). However, it was what I had at hand. But my English dictionary also shows <cairn> from Gaelic <carn> "elevation" from IE *kern- (according to the dictionary) found in Latin <cornu> "horn, extremity, summit". There are also a number of Latin words with <a> which it ascribes to IE roots with *e. I can list some of these if you desire.Andrew