Re: Res: [tied] Etymology of Rome

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 47741
Date: 2007-03-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> <miguelc@> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:25:33 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
> > <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:
> >
> > >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@>
wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 2007-03-07 22:44, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Long in Clasical Period, but 'as I know' it wasn't a long-
> o 'at the
> > >> > beginning'...
> > >>
> > >> _What_ beginning? _How_ do you know it was once short? And
how
> did it
> > >> become long?
> > >>
> > >> Piotr
> > >
> > >
> For another, example, that shows us the change of syllabic
> structure:
see *kWers-reh2 > Rom(.-Subtratum) c^wa:-ra: 'crow' NOT c^wa:r-a:

For Rom c^oara and Alb sorrë 'crow' and its reconstruction, see
Jens' message 30119 and your reconstruction too:

The laryngeal is surely missed in Skt. kr.s.n.á- which I would not
like to separate. Perhaps *-ersn- yields Alb. -orr- without the help
of a laryngeal, but I don't see how to exclude lengthened grade.
Korrë 'harvest' could be close to or even identical with Lat. ce:na,
Osc. kerssna- 'meal' from *ke(:)rt-sna:. I hardly think the presence
of the -t- makes any difference in Alb. (as I understand it does in
Latin, which has perna from *pe(:)rsna:).

The BSl. form could proceed from *c^wo:r- with length and backing
from the Balkan loan. And of course expecially the palatal rounding
points in that direction.

Perhaps *gWe(:)r&3-snaH2 designated "(processed) mass of swallowed
food", whence zorrë 'intestine'? And *kWe(:)rsna: 'one of a black
species', with vrddhi in the latter just as in Lith. várna 'crow'.


Marius