Re: bitch

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:06 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: bitch

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> > Is this Sw. tik "bitch"?
> > Cf.
> > Kuhn, Fremder t-Anlaut im Germanischen
> > "
> > 17. ti:k- (und tu:k-?) 'Hündin', in an. tík und
> > hd. m(und)a(rt)l.
> > Zauche / Zauck, wenn aus tu:k-.
> > "
> >
> > So a substrate word (like all roots in Germanic in TVT- where T =
> > unvoiced stop, since PIE has no roots *DVD- where D = voiced
> > stop)

>
> You lost me here --tik has no voiced D,

I didn't say it had.

> unless you're talking about an underlying IE *dig,

I am.

> which looks weird

And doesn't occur in PIE because of the constraint on roots I mentioned.

Torsten

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And so, how do you fit Zicke into this scheme?

 

Patrick

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