Re: Basque, Etruscan and Common Sound Changes (was: Finnish KASKA)

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:13:50 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>I will restate what I have previously written.
>
>PIE *d is Basque and Etruscan l :
>
>To eat *H1ed :
>Basque Hel Hal

Which specific Basque word(s) are you referring to?
"To eat" in Basque is jan, from *e-an(-i), verbal root *an.

>PIE *r is Basque z and Etruscan s :
>
>House : gher
>Etruscan casa
>Basque etche < ekze < keze

Basque etxe is a borrowing from Celtic *tegi "house" (PIE
*tek-). Modern Basque has the suffix -tegi, -egi "house,
place" (e.g. ardotegi < ardano + tegi "wine-house", harregi
< harri + tegi "stony place"). As an independent word, we
would expect *tegi > *egi, the diminutive of wich is *teg-xe

> etxe.

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