Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia


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> On 2008-11-12 21:34, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
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>> H1 can cause aspiration, a good example is pHol "to fall" < pH1ol Cf.
>> Chamito-Semitic paxid "to fall"
>
> One of Pokorny's more questionable roots; but this time it's the LIV
> that has a _real_ monstrosity: *peh3lh-, "mit ungewöhnlicher
> Wurzelstruktur, die aber vom einzelsprachlicher Material vorausgesetzt
> wird". Ungewöhnlich indeed, to the point of being somewhat unglaubwürdig.
>
> Bomhard and Kerns quote a whole constellation of alleged Afroasiatic
> cognates, but nothing remotely like "paxid".
>
> Piotr
>
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Starostin's database have *paxid
it's where I got this reconstruction based on three branches.
The reconstruction looks rather good.

A.