Hng

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 49748
Date: 2007-09-01

You can find that among a pile of other strange stuff in
http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ Hng.html

Torsten
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Concerning the Greek word "wan-aks",
It looks like Chinese wang "emperor"
and Sumerian EN "king".
WEN does not exist so EN may be in fact [wen] < *wan.
So maybe we have to posit a "asiatic" root *wan "king"
This entails that Greece may have received a greater influence
from Mesopotamia than usually accepted.
 
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I disagree with Bask zango "leg" could be from *skank
and have any relationship with Germanic *skank- /skink
I don't think (proto)-Bask could (ever) have that kind of initial cluster.
clusters are internal in Bask, often thru metatheses.
 
A conspicuous feature of Bask, also visible in Etruscan,
is that PIE *l and *r are reflected as [s] written -z- in Bask.
Example :
Lip < *lap? = Bask ezp-ain < *zap-in
hence zango is in fact the same as leg and Greek laks.
 
Etruscan has the same feature :
Kor "young man" :
Bask giz-on
ETruscan hus
Bask initial -g- should in fact be hoz-
so that this word seems a compound gi- + hoz-on
> giz-on
 
gher "house, enclose place"
Bask etche < ehza < haz
ETruscan casa 
 
Reg "straight branch"
Etruscan sag-itta.
 
Usually Bask and Etruscan display the same mutation :
unvoiced > spirant k > h
voiced > often unchanged
voiced aspirated > often unvoiced
glottalized > unvoiced
 
Bask -l- reflect PIE -d- and -r- reflects -t?-
that has this consequence that in fact eat and tooth are not the same root :
tooth hor-tz < H1ot?
eat (or bite) hel/hal < H1ad
Bask h is from either H1 or k.
 
I class Bask and Etruscan in the same genetic group "Paleo-European".
Etruscan is neither an imported language nor a part of Indo-European.
Bask is usually a comparative nightmare
but a couple of things are clear.
There are no Bask or Etruscan enigmas.