Re: hoopoe

From: tgpedersen
Message: 55778
Date: 2008-03-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
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> Orël, Stol'bova:
>
> 2481 *t.u(m)f- "fill, be full"
> Sem *t.Vp- "be full": Akk tapa:pu.
> WCh *t.umf- "fill up": Hs tumfaye.
> Secondary nasal infix?
>
> Torsten
>
> =========
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> Interesting.
>
> So Tchadic has -n- infix
>
> Cf. -n- in Latin present forms
>
> I suggest s-tuf(fing) as cognate
> for this root *tup- "to fill up"
>
> Semitic t. may be caused by
> the fact the vowel is u.
>
> A beautiful
> PAA *u = PIE *u
> example

Yes, it is a beautiful loanword.


Torsten