From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56765
Date: 2008-04-05
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From: "Anders R. Joergensen" <ollga_loudec@...>
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> You have not stated what you think of
> O. irl menicc = many ?
This is indeed a word with an old geminate. However, the closest
cognate outside Celtic seems to be Germ. *manaG-, which cannot have
PIE *-g- (< *-?k-), as one would suppose in a non-Italo-Celtic
language. Or did I misunderstand you?
Anders
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Osl has menogu "viel" which works
Germanic looks like a LW in that case.
Arnaud
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> creicc "buy" < kwriH2-k-
> Greek pri-a-o (a = H2)
Another derivative of this root is OIr. críth < PCelt. *kWri:tu-.
A.
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Does it mean you consider this example acceptable ?
Arnaud
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> Now
> briccus "speckled" is better compared with *bhreH2-k-
> than with Lituanian marga.
Is this Pokorny's (p. 139) *bher&g^-, *bhre:g^- 'glänzen, weiS'? Or
are you thinking of another root? What Eastern words are you hinting
at?
Anders
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Yes this root makes sense
and there is plenty of traces of H in the data.
Arnaud
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