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

At 1:41:47 AM on Monday, June 27, 2011, Torsten wrote:

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

>> W dniu 2011-06-26 08:09, Torsten pisze:

>>> Trick question: what would happen to PIE *stVló- in
>>> Oscan?

>> Two things wouldn't: *o > a: and k > g

> 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";

Only if one deliberately distorts the attested semantics by
choosing the most atypical datum.

Brian