Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)

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From: Richard Wordingham

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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:16 AM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@ ...>
wrote:


Except that Semitic did form triliterals from biliterals by inserting
a weak consonant as the second consonant - s-w-q even looks rather
appropriate. We do have a minor voicing problem, though. A biliteral
sq should correspond to *seg, *seg^ or *segW.

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What about :

PIE sekw = Arabic sâq "follow in a row"

PIE ghwen = Arabic qana? "kill violently"

PIE gwel = Arabic aqlawla "to fly in the air"

I'm afraid your idea about what should or should not is too simple.

Arnaud

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<Unnecessary jibes against the French snipped. Irrelevant, as well as
bad manners, given Arnaud's linguistic abilities.>

Richard.

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Thanks

I prefer strokes than kicks or slaps !

Arnaud

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