Re: Hng

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "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
>
>

> 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.

Now they are. It is Vennemann's contention that Proto-Vasconic did
once have initial clusters and that eg. *sCV- > zV-

> 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.

Where did that come from?

> 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

What does gi- mean?

> There are no Bask or Etruscan enigmas.

That is encouraging.


Torsten