Res: Res: [tied] Re: (was Latin Honor < ?) Bestia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

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> W dniu 2011-06-26 08:09, Torsten pisze:
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> > Trick question: what would happen to PIE *stVló- in Oscan?
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> Two things wouldn't: *o > a: and k > g
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That's true for a regular derivation within PIE; I suspect that both Latin (st)locus and Oscan sla(a)gi- are substrate words, related to those Boutkan discusses here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61680
the semantics of which, "swamp" etc, would match the Oscan sense of "border"; the sense of "place" would arise if water holes had some special significance in the culture of the original donor language.

I propose *λaN-, vel sim, for whichever language it originated in.


Torsten