Re: [tied] Re: bask r and l

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 49783
Date: 2007-09-03

At 11:58:16 AM on Sunday, September 2, 2007, tgpedersen
wrote:

[...]

> Vennemann:
> Etymologische Beziehungen im Alten Europa, in
> Europa Vasconica - Europa Semitica.

> Etymology and phonotactics, ibd.
> "

> 20.2.6. Phonotactic cluster reduction: OE sceanca 'thigh',
> Bq. zango, zanko 'leg, foot'

> In my 1995c article I compared the etymologically
> unexplained OE sceanca, MHG Schenkel (NHG Schenkel) etc.
> 'thigh' to the likewise etymologically unexplained Bq.
> zango (Eastern dialect zank(h)o) 'leg, foot'

Note, however, that Larry Trask would have disagreed; see
<http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0003&L=indo-european&D=1&P=9089>.

Brian