Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61629
Date: 2008-11-14

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Breton - Slovenian correspondences
> To: "Rick McCallister" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 6:29 PM
> At 4:55:27 PM on Friday, November 14, 2008, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I seem to remember that the Breton word for
> "lively"
> > begins with bis-,
>
> Words that I can find whose senses include 'lively'
> are
> <buhezek>, <bev>, <buan>, and
> <bliv>, with various shades of
> meaning.
>
> Brian

I'm remembering something off the tip of my brain that Roz Frank brought up about 10 years ago --I think on the old Nostratic list. But it was something like bis-, biz-