Anser (was: swallow vs. nighingale)

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> PIE *ghans is a compound word : gh_H2 + H2_ns.
> So there is no "rural" or "irregular" situation.
> LAtin has the simple word H2_ns. Most other languages have the compound.

What are arguments for this hypothesis?

The presence of other rural words in Latin is not a strict evidence for the
exchange *hanser by the rural anser - but makes this assumption really
probable. So, the evidence that any **H2_ns ever existed should be really
convincing.

Other names of animals, including domesticated ones, have rural origin:
- lupus (*wlkWos > **volquus, **vulquus or **volcus, **vulcus expected),
- scrofa (-f- should not exist in Latin at all),
- bo:s (cf. veni:re < *gWem-, thus *gWo:- > **vo:s expected instead),
- anas, anat- (with -a- that should not exist in internal syllables).

And so, nothing strange if anser would be taken from dialects as well.

Grzegorz J.





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