From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57718
Date: 2008-04-20
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
It's amazing what these encoding problems can do.
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>>> I have previously stated that Aikio's pre-north-Saami
>>> substrate was Baltic. According to his data,
>
>>> sieðgavaššu (AA) siedhga-vas^s^u
>
> Try UTF-8; it turns the first of these into <sieðgavas^s^u>,
> which matches Arnaud's <siedhga-vas^s^u>, ...
Yes
A
>
>>> "willow-thicket" ; "bosquet de saules" < pre-S
>>> *selika:-widsu
>>> => Pok 879 *â??s°likâ. Cf. English sallow.
>>> => Pok 1177 *â??widhu. Cf. English wood.
>
> ... and it turns these to *vsºlikâ and *vwidhu, in each of
> which the initial 'v' is probably an artifact of imperfect
> translation of encodings.
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=> Pok 879 *s°lika: Cf. English sallow.
=> Pok 1177 *widhu. Cf. English wood.
*selika:-widsu
siedhga-vas^s^u
A.
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