From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55942
Date: 2008-03-25
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "fournet.arnaud" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:06 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Anser (was: swallow vs.
nighingale)
> At 12:45:10 AM on Tuesday, November 27, 2007, fournet.arnaud
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> I have written that Chinese was oxytonic (stressed on
> >> last vowel) and that this caused a major syllabic
> >> "crunch" in this language.
>
> >> Now, if you look at pages 607/608 of the above reference,
> >> pleng : flat surface => Cf. PIE pel(H2)
>
> Actually 'flat surface/plank'.
>
> >> pling : full => Cf. PIE pel(H1/w)
>
> Actually 'full/fill', with allofam *bliN.
>
> >> pral : forehead => cf. PIE per(H2)
>
> Correction: *pral is glossed 'cold/dry season'; 'forehead'
> is *d-pral.
>
> >> prut : boil => Cf. PIE bherew-
> >> pwa(:)r : fire => Cf. PIE puH2ar
>
> Actually 'fire/burn/shine/white'.
>
> Brian
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In my opinion, 'fire' is earliest PIE *p(h)wa:-r-.
Patrick