Re: [tied] Hng

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

>
> 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-

Vennemann has an article on the word variants *skal/*sal "shall" and
*skarp/*sarp and ascribes them similarly, because of the variation, to
a Vasconic substrate. There is no way PGerm. *sk- > Lombard *z-, so
the Romance forms must have borrowed from the same substrate, not from
Germanic.


Torsten