From: Rick McCallister
Message: 57707
Date: 2008-04-20
> I am currently working on the problem of secondaryThis sounds impressive but how much material do you
> aspiration in
> Messapic. I suspect (but have no solid evidence at
> this time) that
> this aspiration, as well as that in some Illyrian
> ethnonyms, reflects
> one or more laryngeals. I expect to be involved
> with this problem
> for several months, at a minimum. If my hunch turns
> out to be
> wrong ... oh well.
>
> As for the geminate, this in my view is one feature
> of Illyro-
> Japygian, that inherited *k^w retained its length as
> a double
> consonant, not being reduced to the phonological
> single consonant /k
> {w}/ as in Italic and Celtic (and probably Greek and
> Macedonian).
> Krahe refers the Pannonian names <Ecco> and <Eppo>
> here. If they are
> hypocoristics based on compounds 'Horse-Whatever'
> and formed on the
> same principle as Greek <Phillo:>, then we may be
> dealing with Q-
> Pannonian *eko- and P-Pannonian *epo-, but then
> again, the Pannonian
> forms could also be based on nouns with geminates,
> and I am ignorant
> of these inscriptions generally. More work to do
> ...
>
> DGK
>