From: Rick McCallister
Message: 48466
Date: 2007-05-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallisterhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47754
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Miguel Carresquer talked about luft/lucht a while
> > back, maybe he can add some wisdom.
> > But what I'm getting from the exchange is that
> kw/p
> > alternations, like k/s are in the DNA of Western
> IE
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I think I
> agree.
> It's been suggested before that akWa/apa was of
> non-IE
> origin.
>
> The subject of Paemani/Caemani becomes relevant here
>
> if this word is related to the wholehttp://www.bloggen.be/julius_caesar_in_belgie/archief.php?ID=93
> akWa/apa-complex, the
> existence of its two variants becomes
> understandable, and
> it becomes permissible to compare with Greek poime:n
>
> "shepherd" (or originally "man from the meadow"?) if
>
> that word is seen as derived from a pre-PIE root
> with
> variant kW/p, which would also explain the curious
> fact that Welsh, a p-Celtic language, has pawr
> "meadow,
> "pasture", pori "graze"; the p- must then be from
> the
> kW-variant. Note also the aberrant b- in the Greek
> forms.
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/HbHpHg.html
>
> The medieval term 'pagus Falmenna' for the present
> Famenne, I think, must be a Schreibfehler for
> *Faemenna, cf
>
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