Re: ...uveg <-> uiag&...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tolgs001" <george_st@...>
>
> >What the heck do you wanna tell me here? I haven't dealt with your
> >/uj&/ obsession as yet. And I even don't intend to do that, for

your

> >/uj&/ has nothing to do with the discussion üveg-(u)iagä. The only
> >thing that ->indeed<- would fit is the fact that /uj&/ somewhat

resembles

> >the beginning of /ujag&/ provided that /uj&/ is pronounced /u-j&/.

But,

> >if the stress falls upon /u/ then there's a start(l)ing

difference: in

> >/ujag&/ the stress falls on the second syllable.
> >George
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> So far nobody has provided an explanation for Hungarian üveg having

ü,

> and apaka: or Ossetic (?) avg don't obviously.
> Why should it have ü starting with a ?
>
> The idea that the root is uj- looks nice.
> uj fused into ü
> when the suffix -eg is attached, the glide is -v- because ü is a

rounded

> vowel,
> this really makes sense.
>
> Arnaud
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Exactly. A protoform *uyaga is the more probable one => this passed
regularly to *uyegV in Hungarian Loans

Marius