Re: b/m alternation in Thacian, Illyria and Abanian

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56291
Date: 2008-03-30

----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen

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> oa in north Saami LW points toward PIE *uH

No one claimed the pre-Saami substrate was IE.
T.
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I did and I still do.
Arnaud
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> and -kk- points toward ?-k

In your reconstruction of PIE, but nothing points to this substrate
being IE.
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Thanks for implying I might be able to reconstruct PIE,
Nice from you.
Arnaud
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> Hence we can assume a para-celtic word *lu?-k-eH2

Don't say 'we' to me.
T.
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Let everybody but dear Torsten assume it.
Arnaud
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> I suggest Pok 692 lou "to wash" as root.
>
> After you salted them, you have to wash the salt
> before you eat them.

You'd have to prove first that the pre-Saami substrate was IE.
Torsten
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Other words with oa < PIE u:

c^oavz^z^u "snipe" < *c^uH-
Cf. Dutch cuut Engl coot
with Satem.

goalsi "merganser" < *guHd-
Cf. ie gwadh "dive"

loadhgu "owl" < "ululare"

roahpi "rocky mountain" < *ruhp-
Cf. LAtin ru:pes "rock"

coakci (AA) "foothold (in snow)" < *scuHp-
=> Pok 955 *sk_wbh-.
Cf. Bas-allemand shu:ffeln "marcher maladroitement".
Cf. Proto-Saami *coapce:

Arnaud
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