Re: b/m alternation in Thacian, Illyria and Abanian

There seems to be a fair amount of alternation of b/m
in Celtic, which occasionally shows up in Romance
languages:
e.g. Portuguese boneca vs. Spanish muñeca "doll,
wrist", originally "lump"
About 10 years ago or so there were some posting
regarding this --perhaps on this list, or the old IE
list but I don't remember which



--- Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...> wrote:

> b/m alternation in anlaut, inlaut and auslaut and
> not p:m, as some of
> our linguist declares and thinks, not knowing for
> -pn- > -m- change in
> many inherited words, is evident in a number of
> words not only in
> Thracian, like: Abydon :Amydon, Andrabus : Andramus,
> Bargos : Margos,
> Basteira: Masteira, Bendis : Mendis, Doberos :
> Domerus, Serbolia :
> Sermulia, Tibiskos : Timesis (R. Katiçiq, "Ancient
> Languages of the
> Balkans", Mouton, 1976, p. 144), but also in a
> number of words of
> Illyrian and Albanian, like: Abantia : Amantia (cf.
> Alb amë 'river' <
> ap-no, attested also in river name Amar and Amana),
> Bathis (in
> Dalmatia) : Mathis (river name Mat in Albania; cf.
> Alb mat 'river
> bank'), Bardhylis : Mardhylis (royal name, probably
> related to Alb
> bardhë 'white'), Albena : Almena (Hahn), but as well
> in bush : gë-
> mushë 'bush' < *bhu-s(a:), zero-grade form of
> *bheuH- 'to be, exist;
> grow'. I think that this characteristic feature
> speaks in favor of
> opinion that Illyrian and Thracian makes one group
> of Old Balkans
> languages.
> Any comment?
>
> Konushevci
>
>

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