[tied] Re: Allofamy, allofams

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

>
> On 2006-07-05 13:45, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > cf ON gangari (< PGerm. *gang-) "steed"
>
> This is just an agent noun derived from *GanG-. The root may well be
> some sort of "allofam" of *k^enk-, which does resemble *g^HengH- a

lot.

> Both look like onomatopoeic semi-reduplications and, if not

technically

> cognate, at least represent the same structural pattern. Cf. also

Celtic

> *keng-e/o- (?) 'go, tread'.
>

The three verbs I know of with supposedly Verner variation
*-Vng-/*-Vnx- -> *-Vng-/*-V:x- are
*gang-/*ga:-
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hng.html
*hang-/*ha:-
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hng.html
*fang-/*fa:-
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/HbHpHg.html

thus all with foreign relatives, also in East Asia;
and the supposed Verner variation may in fact be
Sino-Tibetan.



Torsten