Res: Res: [tied] Re: Barba and Bestia: bH>b (dissimilation)

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 64596
Date: 2009-08-04

There are no hyenas in Italia, so or belbus had an older meaning, maybe "beast, monster, something like", or had foreign origin, probably North African.

JS Lopes

De: stlatos <stlatos@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 4 de Agosto de 2009 13:29:46
Assunto: Res: [tied] Re: Barba and Bestia: bH>b (dissimilation)

 

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@.. .> wrote:
>
> Bestia is borrowed from what language?

An Indo-European language similar to Yeniseian, possibly North Picene, although other languages of the same type probably existed without any attestation.

> Do belbus "hyena" fit in this same root?

Maybe.


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