From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 57796
Date: 2008-04-21
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:13 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Gothic mimz? < *me:mso-
> On 2008-04-21 12:06, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
>
> > Is Gothic mimz expected? Why not *minz or *minz? Is this preservation of
> > M before z regular? There are attempts to link Mi:mir with mimz... May
> > we assume a s-name like *me:ms, *me:mos- ?
>
> /m/ does not assimilate as easily as /n/. The Germanic reflexes of *-mt-
> are different from those of *-nt-, so there is no reason why *-ms-
> should not have been preserved as well. Th 'meat' word shows, in fact,
> that that it _was_ preserved.
>
> Piotr
>
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Patrick:
Piotr, I have entertained the idea that *me:mso- is the end result of a
reduplication: *mésmos-.
Do you think that is feasible?
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