Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Germanic p

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 48547
Date: 2007-05-13

Did Latin get /d/ > /l/ from Etruscan? I seem to
remember Etruscan Ulixe for Odysseus. Correct me on
this. If not, it must have happen very shortly before
the classical stage


--- alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>
>
> Richard Wordingham schrieb:
>
> > I don't believe there is any problem in Celtic or
> pre-Romance Italic -
> > the development was pretty regular. The basic
> point in these
> > languages is that a change of the type kw > p is
> always possible.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>
>
> I guess I said once that in Romanian, even today is
> a habbit of use
> alternative the group "pi" with "chi" or of the
> group "ghi" in
> alternance with "bi/vi" in the same word. In the
> literary language
> something like this is hardly prohibited but the
> people speak stil
> that way.
>
> some examples for pi/ki:
>
> foot = pic^or/kic^ior,
> breast=piept/kiept
>
> for ghi/bi
> bufallo= bivol/givol
> life =giatsã/viatsa
>
>
> If I remember correct, beside the same change (Latin
> kW >p > b,
> gW >b) Sardinian has too a strange habbit, the one
> of changing the
> Latin "ll" in a kind of "d". But this change it is
> know to have
> worked for Latin other way around where "d" > "l" as
> in Sabinic
> "*dacruma(?) > Latin "lacrima". Pretty strange for a
> such "change
> to original form.
>
> Alex
>




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