Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

On 2008-11-11 00:15, tgpedersen wrote:

> I have no problem with positing a loan into Greek from Venetic. After
> all, they at Troy too.

Did the Tocharians borrow from them too? And *wa(:)g^-, in particular,
is even more widespread (cf. Skt. vájra-, not to mention a Hittite
cognate). As none of your "Venetic loans" is attested in Venetic, it
seems the Veneti loaned away most of their verbs and ended up
practically verbless themselves.

> > *perh3-, *melh2- or *h2anh1-, with a final consonant cluster.
>
> I've grown suspicious of those roots with laryngeals in auslaut,
> ghosts of departed quantities, most likely.

Does such a ghost haunt *waskanã 'wash' as well? Are the Skt. /i/ in
<ániti> and Gk. /e/ in <ánemos> ghosts of a departed quantity? Is the
Luwian /h/ in <ma:lhu:-> an illusion?

Piotr