Re: [tied] Hng

Basque zango is from Romance
See Italian zanco
See Spanish zanco "stilt", zancudo "mosquito
--literally 'longlegs"
it's probably from a Lombard word derived from *skank-
BTW: How did skank & variant skag come to mean "whore,
loose ugly woman" in English? Is it because
prostitutes show their legs?
Skank and shank also mean "prison knife" made from a
piece of metal, bedpost, etc.

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> You can find that among a pile of other strange
> stuff in
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hng.html
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Reg "straight branch"
> Etruscan sag-itta.
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> Usually Bask and Etruscan display the same mutation
> :
> unvoiced > spirant k > h
> voiced > often unchanged
> voiced aspirated > often unvoiced
> glottalized > unvoiced
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> 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.
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> 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.
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