From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61991
Date: 2008-12-09
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> I am warming to the idea that all the "water" words may be connected
> to FU somehow, cf
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61531
> that Saami, Obugric *un,a looks suspiciously close to the *n,W-
> something root I always use for water (*n,Wod-).
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the little hitch is that reconstruction looks bad as usual.
ostyak has forms like oG, ow
Quite strangely, this suggests something like oxwo,
strikingly looking like Germanic axwô.
As regards Finnish vuori "mountain",
UEW 571 *wor has the expected doublet with n :
Moksha när "cape"
Zyrian nïrek "landspitze"
These words are usually attributed to a metaphoric meaning of the word
"nose".
From my point of view, the existence of this alternation n / w is a very
strong indication that most of these words are not loanwords.
A.
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>> Yup. Mot populaire. Maybe it's time we give a name to that
>> a-language substrate. Oenotrian? Aboriginal?
>> http://tinyurl.com/5zrry9
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>> I remember something like nebulococcygian.
>> It wasn't meant to be laudative
>> but it sounds great for a substrate.
>>
> And I propose an adjective Arnauzian to characterize certain postings.
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> Torsten
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