On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:38:29 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
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fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
>PIE has few words
>where *i is clearly
>a vowel and not avocalic yod.
>
>Dialectal French
>isard = mountain goat, chamois
This is a Pyrenean word (Cat. isard, Gasc. izar(t), Arag.
sarrio), most likely connected with Basque izarr "star"
(also "white spot on the forehead", "centro por donde parte
el pelo").
The word "chamois", Sp. gamuza, Lat. camo:x is given in
Pokorny as derived from an Alpine substrate word *kamo:sso-
(< PIE *k^am-ont-?). The Basque word for "goat" <ahuntz> (<
*anuns) appears to be an ancient borrowing from
Indo-European: *kamo(:)nts > *anuns > ahuntz, with regular
*k- > 0-, *-m- > -n-, as in native words.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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