Re: floor

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > Alternatively, we could follow Kuhn and propose the existence of
> > not one but two substrate layers for Germanic in the NWBlock area:
> >
> > 1 a non-IE language, called the ar-/ur-language by Kuhn
> >
> > 2 an IE language, spoken but for a short time before Germanic took
> > over
> >
> > and assign the Germanic-like NWBlock roots to the latter, eg
> > Meid's German flur, English floor, NWB placename Plore, OI lar
> > "field"
> >
> Matasović reconstructs Proto-Celtic *fla:ro- 'floor', and he quotes
> Old Irish lár 'ground, surface, middle', although the semantic shift
> to 'field' is straightforward (cfr. Basque larre 'meadow', probably
> a Celtic loanword).
>
> However, I'd prefer *p\ to Matasović's reconstructed *f , and I
> also wonder whether NWB <p> actually represented /p\/ and not /p/.
>
>
> > (<- *plar-/*plan- <- *plaN- ?)

I'm not familiar with your notation convention. What phoneme does your /p\/ represent?


Torsten