Re: Re[7]: [tied] Mille (thousand)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:30 PM
Subject: Re[7]: [tied] Mille (thousand)


<snip>

> So /n-/ in <nickname>, <newt>, <Nash>, etc. must be a
> morpheme, eh? And whatever can have possessed the Irish
> that they began playing silly buggers with initial
> consonants?
>
> Brian

***

Being Irish myself, I can assure you absolutely that "playing silly buggers"
is a direct outcome of too many people drinking way too much for too much of
the time.

But I would suspect you yourself might be having nip or two if you are
thinking these paltry few examples have anything in common with the flood of
s-mobile forms: just look how big the s-section is in Pokorny.

You cannot really be serious in doubting *s- was a morpheme meaning
something, can you?


Patrick