Re: Anser (was: swallow vs. nighingale)

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> From: fournet.arnaud
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:18 AM
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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.

>

I. For me, *gHh2 + *h2ns sounds as a good hypothesis:

*gHh2- is nothing else that the onomatopeic reproduction of the
goose's sound

*h2ns - is really the word to denominate this type of bird(s)


II. We have a similar pattern in:

Albanian berr 'ram'
Romanian b^ar 'interjection used to call the sheep'
<
PAlb/Dacian? *berr-
< [rr < wr]
PIE *be 'imitation of a sheep's sound'
+ *wrh1-(e(:))n- 'lamb'

III. So the pattern:
<imitation of the animal's sound> + <animal/animal-group name>
could well belong to PIE-Times

Marius