Re: e: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA

Wasn't it something like "horned" --because this root
also applies to an owl, right? Isn't chouan from
something like camunis (vel sim)?


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

> Miguel, are you segmenting it so because you analyze
> it as a participle: the
> 'lusting one'?
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:26 AM
> Subject: Re: e: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA
>
>
> > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:38:29 +0100,
> "fournet.arnaud"
> > <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.
> >
> > =======================
> > Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> > miguelc@...
> >
> >
>

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