Re[2]: [tied] Origin of *marko- Margus murg ma'rgas amurg

At 6:49:02 PM on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>> On 2008-04-16 21:21, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>>> 5. Fifth,
>>> a loaned k- after k>x finished was loaned as what ?

>> As the only velar stop that (pre-)Proto-Germanic had at
>> that time -- /g/, soon to be devoiced into /k/.

>>> or a loaned g- after g>k finished was loaned as what ?

>> As voiced velar /G/, typically (one of its major
>> allophones soon became [g]); only exceptionally as /k/
>> (Goth. Kre:ks, etc. for 'Greek').

> IF Greek BECAME Kre:ks in Gothic
> a loan marG(u)- WOULD-GIVE marK- > Marco-manni, isn't it?

No. The most you can claim is 'MIGHT EXCEPTIONALLY GIVE';
'WOULD GIVE' is right out.

> (see ALSO the clusters gr/rg <-> kr/rk)

> Of course I ignore 'exceptionally'

In other words, you ignore the large majority of the
evidence. This isn't scholarship.

Brian