Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in counting

From: tgpedersen
Message: 48459
Date: 2007-05-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> cf. Spanish cayo, as in Florida Keys
> and
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/34887
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/35245
>
> cf
> pagus "district, canton" Latin
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/HbHpHg.html
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> originally pre-IE (LBK-Rössen?)
> "landing place, pasture next to river"?
>
> *pag- "land, secure a boat"?


The point being that the PIE root *pag-/*pak- root should be instead
*(a)kWag-/pag-/pak-, a derivative of the *akWa-/apa- root, the kW/p
alternation being of the same pre-PIE origin, cf that that alternation
exists within Celtic, Italic and Germanic (German Luft / Dutch lucht).


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