Re: Limitations of the comparative method

smelt is transitive: cause to melt
melt is properly intransitive


Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: Limitations of the comparative method


> Thank you !
>
> What about a *melting pot* ?
> used for melting or for smelting ?
>
> Arnaud
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: Limitations of the comparative method
>
>
> melt
> smelt is used in an metallurgical sense --melting
> metal
>
> --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
>
> . . .
> > Tsalam? t?ob
> >
> > The cognate of PIE *tah2-(w) is
> > th_gh_b : to smelt (especially snow or ice)
> > which is phonetically a beautiful equation with
> > LAtin tab-êo
> > t = th
> > H2 = gh (velar voiced spirant)
> > b = b
> >
> > Another interesting word is Uralic word for "spring"
> > which somehow looks like *taw or *tu-nd-
> > but there is no trace of (gh) which should surface
> > as -j- yod.
> > Hungarian tavasz
> > Etc
> > but it should be **täv out of *tajw-
> > it does not work
> > so "spring" is not "ice-thaw" in Uralic
> >
> > Arnaud.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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