_ser'ga_<_*ausahriggs

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ualarauans
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:40 AM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied]

=?iso-8859-1?q?Re:_ser'ga_<_*ausahriggs=3F_(Was:_-leben/-lev/-l=F6v_and_-ung-_(gothic_loanwords))?

>
> ===========
> A.F
> The first major problem is : why u instead of aw.
> (Why not jaw or ju ?)
> The next major one is why e instead of long a: < ah
> a third (minor ?) one is why eN instead of in
> And what about ruki law : awsa > awxa !?

The timing is important. It's not very likely that the borrowing
occurred before s>s.>x after u/etc. A long o: or O: could easily be
borrowed as u: after original o: > a:. It could be almost any time
before U/I > 0 (no in at end of syl., so in > eN).