[tied] Re: Prenasalization, not ejectives cause of Winter's law?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46166
Date: 2006-09-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-09-20 20:47, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > 'dare' = 'make bold'? Do you also have a reference to the book
> > of semantics you are using?
>
> 'dare' = 'make oneself bold' or 'be made bold'. In this particular
case,
> we have middle (passive, reflexive) semantics diffusing into the active
> form.
>

Ah, now all I need is to invent a phoneme that goes
*-néw- (*-nów-?) and *´-u-. *u~, perhaps? Some
soft version of *-b-?


Torsten