Re: dhuga:ter

The funniest menu I ever saw was one that one of my
professors stole from a restaurant in Spain. It had:
Rape a la marinera -- Rape, Sailor Style


--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:59:34 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >There are only two possibilities for explaining
> those data.
> >
> >1 )Two words were in circulation; and for unknown
> reasons the stem with -k
> >was preferred for the nominative singular; or
> >
> >2) 'laryngeal' hardening of a stem ending in a
> 'laryngeal' in a given
> >phonotactic situations.
> >
> >
> >Of the two, the second is the far more probable.
> >
> >
> >You have proved your case as far as I am concerned.
>
> I had actually quite forgotten that the acc. of
> senex is
> senem, but it is indeed an important argument.
> I wouldn't be surprised if it was precisely senex ~
> senem
> what led Martinet to look into the matter of
> laryngeal
> hardening in the first place.
>
> >Now, do you ever do salmon?
>
> Sure. But my favorite is angler fish ("sea-devil",
> rap,
> rape, lotte, z.abnica, Lophius piscatorius).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
>

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