RE : Re: [tied] *pYerkW+

From: patrick cuadrado
Message: 48705
Date: 2007-05-23

Hello i ve no idea about Perkh-
but i found this
 
IE Perk = Dark
Grec Perkazin = to become dark, Grec Perke = Perch (dark fish) < Latin Perca
Celtic Erkunia = Oak forest because the oak is leafy and thick < dark (?)
but Hindi Pargai (Kind of oak) ans Sanskrit Parkati/Paraktah (Fig tree)
 
IE Prek- = Spoted/Specled (?)
Grec Praknos (Dark ?)
Celtic (P)erko- <(P)rko- < Brikko- ? = Britonic =  Middle Breton Brech/Briz < Breton Brec’h/Brizh (Smallpox) et Brikailh (Variegation). Cornique Bregh/Bryth (chickenpox). Welsh Brech (chickenpox) and Welsh Brych/Brychu/Brith (Spot/Spotted)
                                                   = Gaelic = Old Irish Brecc/Brecht (Spoted) < Irish Breac (Flecked). Manx Breckey (Many colored)
French dialectal Brèche multi colored cow
Germanic = Old Norse Freknur < Norse Fregne.  Suedish  Brokig (Dapled) and Fräkne
(Freckled). English Freckles
Sanskrit Prsnih mutli colored
Albanish Prenkë Frecked

Does it possible that IE Perk/Prek done
* Celtic (P)erk
* Celtic Brikk- (from metatesis Pirk- < Prik < Brik ?)
 

Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> a écrit :

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@... edu.pl> wrote:

> On 2007-05-23 03:26, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > For this I did give a possible mot. (that rsn is
> a
> > long uncommon chain of dentals). A dissimilation
> of
> > rsn > rsm would seem fine to me; since it's
> followed
> > by u there is a switch instead of straight
> > dissimilation.
>
> *-rsn- is not particularly uncommon in PIE:
> *kWr.sno- 'black' and
> *persnah2 (~ *pe:rsni-) 'heel' are well-known
> examples of wide-ranging
> words in which the clusters occurs (not to mention
> *tr.snah2 itself or
> more complex structures like *-rh2sn-).

This is followed by u; it only happens in two
languages, it doesn't need to be a very common change.

> > Abstract changes based on mental classification
> are
> > at least as important as those based on perceptual
> > phonology.
>
> Fine on paper, as I said, but where are all those tu
> > pi changes that
> should have happened?

It's a possible change, not a very likely one. As I
said, this particular environment would allow
dissimilation of n>m, but met. occurred because it was
directly followed by u. Instead of incorrect timing
in speech, think of it as incorrect linking of a row
of features.

Pure dissim. occurs in Khowar for the second person
plural ending +tana: > *+tna: > *+tma > +mi (with
analogy with +masi > *+nsi > +si causing *a>i).

> If you insist on the
> importance of the dental
> environment, let's imagine something comparable,
> like rstu > rspi. My
> gut feeling as a phonologist is that there is
> something fundamentally
> wrong with any model that predicts this as a
> plausible sound change.

Dissim. and met. are more likely to change nasals in
this way than stops. It's likely that only the
feature +nasal is the underlying form of *n in my
derivation; for any language likely to have rst t
might be specified with C, or C linked to both + and
-cont. (if st clusters were common), or C + whatever
features are needed to distinguish t depending on the
language. Phonemes with the fewest specified features
are most likely to link to other touching features.

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