Re: Belgs

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62511
Date: 2009-01-17

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> I'm afraid you are falling from nephelococcygian into oinococcygian.
> Have you had a recent orgy with M. Kalevi Wiik ?
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Usually I make my mind up on what I should be reading at next based on
the degree of inanity of the blather people are willing to emit in
order to keep me away from it.

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Indeed,
you have a definite tropism for absurdity.
and it shows.
A.
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> Appellative occurrences of volg-
> Uralic
> http://tinyurl.com/a7fptz
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> The reconstruction is bad as usual.
> Better is CuH-il-
> C can be either w- or N-

I get it from UEW that the edh is there in order to explain the umlaut
of the Hungarian gloss. If that is left out, we might posit (?*n,Wul-
>) *n,WuGl- > *wulg- vel sim-, which is more like what you want.

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I beg your pardon !?

*Wulg does not explain any of the attested Uralic forms.

A.
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> How do you connect Uralic *wuHil and PIE *welg- ?
>

I think one should connect one's own reconstructions.
Mine was Uralic *walg-/*wulg-.
Torsten

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Keep on dreaming.

A.