From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50309
Date: 2007-10-16
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2007-10-16 18:21, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> >
> > > Can 'hat' be traced back to a PIE *kaT-T- , as
> is the case of
> > > Latin cassis and PAlb. /kac^ula/ ?
> >
> > I wonder if MLat. casula 'cloak with a cowl'
> (hence kos(^)ulja or
> > the like for 'shirt' in various Slavic languages)
> belongs here
> > rather than being a diminutive of <casa>. I mean
> it could have been
> > a substratal word of the Balkan area borrowed into
> Vulgar Latin,
> > perhaps with 'hood' as the original meaning. I'd
> put my money on a
> > Klugean reconstruction of the Gmc. "hat" word as
> *kaT-nó-, in which
> > case *kaT-tó- would be related but not quite the
> same.
>
> Kuhn convinced me that Germanic gemination is a
> substrate-induced
> phenomenon (thus Kluge's law doesn't exist), but in
> such detail that
> I've had to upload the whole article in the files
> section, instead of
> trying to condense it into a posting. In German,
> unfortunately.
>
>
> Torsten
>
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