Re: [tied] Hng

The major problem is stanco does not exist in Italian.

It is just a variant form of stanco "tired".

----- Original Message -----

From: Rick McCallister

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 12:41 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Hng

Sure it could have
*skank > *ksank > *tsank > Italian <zanco> /tsanko/

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@... com> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@... s.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
>
>
>

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