Re: 7-minute ITCH

But you know French and Russian, right? You've taken
Latin, right? So Romanian should be a snap. The Latin
derived words are generally very transparent and the
Slavic derived should be pretty easy for someone who
knows Russian. Even though my knowledge is Slavic
languages is very rudimentary, there's enough Latin
derived lexicon that I can usually get the gist, and
there are Romanian dictionaries on-line so that
written Romanian isn't too hard. The spoken language,
however, is a different story.


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> Thank you for your help.
>
> The link was interesting but unfortunately, I do not
> have Romanian.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "altamix" <alxmoeller@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:27 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: 7-minute ITCH
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Piotr,
> >
> > I ran across some interesting implications
> connected with 'itch'.
> >
> > AHD says it is unattested in PIE but presumably
> from a unattested
> Germanic
> > *yuk-.
> >
> > Do you think it might have a PIE antecedent in PIE
> *yeug^-, 'be
> stirred up'?
> >
> > Anyone else who has an opinion, please join in.
> >
> >
> > Patrick
>
>
> I wonder about Rom. "jeg" and "jughini/jughina",
> jigãri, jigoare,
> etc., if they belong here
> too... The "j" can be easely explained due "yu-" >
> "ju" cf.
> Latin "iucare" > "juca". I am not sure about the "g"
> there but we
> know too that there is a latin final "k" where we
> have anomalously a
> Romanian "g" ( Latin vitricus - Rom. vitreg).
>
> jeg= dirt
> jughini= try to get the dirt off skin due scratching
> it.
>
> the actual tries to etymologise it here are
> multiple, reaching all
> the neighbouring languages, thus please see this
> link:
>
> http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=jeg
>
> best regards
>
> Alexandru Moeller
>
> best regards
>
> Alexandru Moeller
>
>

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