Re: [tied] Re: The name of the name

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:31 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: The name of the name

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@. ..> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@... s.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@>
> wrote:
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> > I would therefore prefer to reconstruct the root as
> > *h1nóh3-, oblique *h1nh3-, with suffix *-men-.
> ********
> The final line of Pokorny (with my apology for font problems):
> "vgl. finno-ugr. n"m, nam, ne°m, namma, magyar. nOv `Name'."
> This has been one of the classic examples for proponents of a
> relationship between I.-E, and F.-U.
> With Miguel's reconstruction there seem to be four possibilities:
> 1) F.-U. borrowing from one of the I.-E. languages (or from P.IE
> itself).
> 2) Attachment of the suffix to the root in a language ancestral
> to both phyla.
> 3) Existence in both phyla of the the root and the suffix with
> similar enough functions for parallel development.
> 4) Wild coincidence.
> Is there evidence otherwise for *-men in F.-U.?

Bomhard mention further Sumerian nimi "word"

Torsten

 

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Sumerian inim, 'word'.

 

Patrick

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