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

That's an interesting look at bacalao. I always
wondered if you could play baseball with a dried cod
--they look like something Barry Bonds would use.
There exist metathasized forms with /kab-/ in various
languages as well. This is one that stumped Trask.

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> b > m is Basque too, cf Latin bacillum etc (from
> some substrate, cf b-
> and /a/ ?), Basque makila "stick", which reminds me,
> by the way, of
> Sp. bacalao, Pt. bacalhao (approx.!) "codfish", from
> Basque, vs. Germ.
> Stockfisch, Du stokvis "dried fish, especially cod".
> If the bakal-
> part corresponds to stok-, does the rest mean "fish"
> (in whichever
> way)? Basque experts?
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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