Re: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: bitch

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:06 AM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: bitch

> > 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)

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No, this never-ending  substrate obsession is absurd.

A cognate to Arabic dhi?-b "wolf, jackal" with a different suffix -k,

hence PIE *di?-k makes no problem at all.

CF. Tchadic a-di "dog". (A word with -i- as Ur-vokal)

Good old PIE.

But it still does not explain what bitch < *bikk- is from.

Arnaud

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