Re: Res: Res: [tied] swallow vs. nighingale, PASSer

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

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>
> 1) passer > *passerus > *passro > *passarus
> analogous to
> lacerta > *lacertus > *lacartus ?

Maybe; but I wouldn't be certain they're the result of the same change.

> 2)
> Is passer similar to anser? (<*passis ?)

L a:nser < *gYhansoro+s 'goose'; L passer < *psar or maybe *psaxa:r
psx,r+os etc.

> 3) passarus should be *paxaro, paixaro, peixaro in Portuguese. "pássaro"

Why? It's the Sp word that needs special explanation.