From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57801
Date: 2008-04-21
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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> Attestation gaps are always to be expected, especially for a lexeme
> which isn't part of the basic vocabulary (and however you define "basic"
> meanings, 'hedgehog' is not one of them). There may have existed an
> alternative word for the hedgehog, *g(^)He:r, with a more limited range
> of attestation (Greek, Italic), but *h1eg^Hi- is pretty widespread,
> especially for an insectivore. As there are no hedgehogs east of the
> Ural mountains, I'm not surprised that the word doesn't occur in
> Tocharian.
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Two words of limited extension for an insignificant animal.
One in Italic and Greek
the other in Greek, Germanic, Balto-slavic, Ossetic and Phrygian.
The latter one is a nice isogloss, even though it's a LW.
Arnaud
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> Gms. *saiwiz has a plausible IE etymology.
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I'd be glad to hear of it.
Arnaud
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> Repeat it as many times as you will, it won't become any stronger.
> Incidentally, *s'ijili (or the like) is given as the PFU reconstruction
> (Sammallahti). Where did you get a PU 'hedgehog' from?
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I don't think *s'ijiki could ever become Moksha s&j&l.
Standard Finnishoid junk as usual.
Arnaud
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>> Are you that blind ?
>
> I'm just too cautious to be misled by the glister of fool's gold.
>
> Piotr
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H1egh- is fool's gold.
Arnaud
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