From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50326
Date: 2007-10-17
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallisterhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/23222
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Any chance that word is related to cott, cottage?
> > or to Spanish coto "enclosure"?
> > I'm in El Salvador, Central America, so I don't
> access
> > to any reference books at all. So pardon my
> ignorance
> >
>
>
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46170
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> Since it's of the form TVT where T = unvoiced stop,
> for it to be
> Germanic, it would have to be from a PIE *DVD where
> D = voiced stop,
> which couldn't occur in PIE. Therefore it must be a
> loan.
>
>
> Torsten
>
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>