[tied] Re: root *pVs- for cat

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>

> He's referring to Scots Gaelic pronunciation of <b> as
> /p/. Once you weed out thes false positives, then
> you'll have the real NWB words.

Ay, but there's the rub: is piseag a 'false positive' and unrelated to
the NWB-in-Germanic *pusik-/*pusak- words, Basque mutiko and Slavic
pisica?

> I don't think anyone is doubting you.

If so, I hope they won't this time either.

> I've read that Scots Gaelic and Icelandic are the only
> languages in Northern or Western Europe to devoice
> voiced stops and aspirate unvoiced stops. Is this
> true?

I wouldn't know. Sorry.


Torsten