Re: [tied] Lynx (was: "Fish" in Slavic)

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:12:22 +0200, Grzegorz Jagodzinski
<grzegorj2000@...> wrote:

>And according to your deduction, Greek and Samogitian (and Slavic, as
>you assume) had metathesis, Celtic and Germanic had not any *n, and
>only Armenian preserved the root without metathesis. Interesting,
>especially for an advocate of unexceptional sound rules. And in
>lus[a]n[u]nk', lus- stay for *luk^-

From *leuk-. *luk- would have given +lsanunk`. *k => *k^
after /u/ in Armenian.

>, -un- stay for *-n- or even -nH-,

-unk` must be from *-ones

>and
>what does the second -n- stay for?

-an- most likely derives from *-n.- here. The plural
lusanunk` "lynxes" appears to be a formation like mkan =>
mkanunk`, artewan => artewanunk`, with secondary influence
from the n-stems on original (n)o- or (n)ah2-stems. The
unattested singular would be *lusan, from something like
*leuk-n.to-.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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