From: tgpedersen
Message: 48419
Date: 2007-05-03
>W. Meid: Hans Kuhns "Nordwestblock"-Hypothese
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> > tgpedersen wrote:
> > > A loose idea (as usual): Suppose the substrate language of NW
> > > Europe (Pre-IE Nordwestblock) had dialect variations p/kW. That
> > > result in doublet (p/kW) loanwords in the successor IE languages
> > > (example: http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/pd.html ,
> > > check the Cushitic forms, and *panna/*kanna?),
> *pag-/*pak-/*ka:k- (Danish 'kag' (ka:G), Swedish 'kåk' (kå:k),
> Dutch 'kaak' "pole, pillory"
> And in a comment to 'kåge' "look", Norw., Sw. dial. 'koga', Sw
> dial. 'koka' (cf. English peek): "As so often otherwise, next to
> this root with guttural auslaut, there exists a synonymous one
> ending in labial: OHG 'kâpfen' "look"."
> > > perhaps to the point where the Sprachgefühl demanded
> > > "resolution", preferring p-forms over kW-forms or vice versa,
> > > whereupon the same preference spread to th rest of the
> > > language? Is this a good way to explain the Irish 'cothrige'-
> > > forms?
> > >
> >
> > I don't believe in a substrate of NW-Europe, Pre-IE Nordwestblock
> > as being the factor for this cahnge. We see the alternance in
> > Celtic ( Q verus P), we see the alternance in East Of Europea
> > (Anicent Illiric/Thracian Ulkiana/Ulpiana), we stil have this
> > alternance living in Rom so "NW-Europe" is not singular for a such
> > afirmation. Apparently the "sprachgefühl" should fit more better
> > but it will have the disavantage of letting uncovered the
> > "scientific" aspect of the thing. The phonetic change of "kW" to
> > "p" cann be just one way I think:
> >
> > -the lost of velar and consonating of the frontal "w" to a clean
> > labial, thus kW > W > b/p
> >
>
> The non-IE (as opposed to the later IE) Nordwestblock language is
> probably identical to Kuhn's ar-/ur- language, although he is not
> very clear on this point. That language is found in scattered
> instances also in Eastern Europe. Kuhn himself thinks there is
> somehow a connection between the kW/p alternations in Celtic, in
> Dutch/German and Latin/Osco-Umbrian, the latter he since imagines
> several emigration waves from the Nordwestblock to Italy.
>