Re: [tied] Re: bask r and l

It would be interesting to have Trask's opinion

about the word zigor "rod, piece of wood"

It looks like there are two words :

- one for "leg, foot"

- one for "long piece of wood"

MAybe both are in fact loanwords into Bask.

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

From: Brian M. Scott

To: tgpedersen

Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:21 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: bask r and l

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