Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

For someone who speaks a Romance language, I would have guessed you would
know that <ka:tinus/katillus> is impossible for Latin.

They used <c> for [k].


Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re:Re: [tied] Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"


> From: Patrick Ryan
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> And what is the Germanic equivalent to <katina>?
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> What is it in Latin? You do not mean <cate:na> do you?
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> Patrick
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> English kettle
> From old Norse ketill
> From supposedly Common Germanic *katilaz
> From
> Latin kati:nus/katillus
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> You are foraging PAA and P**
> You don't even understand your own mother tongue.
> Pathetic.
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> Arnaud.
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