Re: swallow vs. nighingale

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 50966
Date: 2007-12-21

Arabic ¿atamatun, darkness; ¿attama, darken
 
 
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: swallow vs. nighingale

 
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From: tgpedersen
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:41 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: swallow vs. nighingale

Torsten :
if you want *H-d-m "darkness" etc, look here
http://www.angelfir e.com/rant/ tgpedersen/ Adm.html
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Sorry
but  I did not find a single word meaning "black" with H_d_m structure at this reference.
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As is clear from the Møller quote in
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/50938
in case you read it.
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Arnaud :
so what ?
this message is one light-year from being clear ?
what do you mean ?
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> From root '-a-m?- (glottal stop_glottalized m)

Weird nasal. I prefer /n,W/, nasal labiovelar.

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Arnaud :
What makes you think *nw is less weird than *m?- ??
I have never imagined something like *nw as a phoneme !?
Arnaud
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