Re: floor

From: Torsten
Message: 68014
Date: 2011-09-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "o_cossue" <o.cossue@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
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> > Then if laverca is from NW Iberia, it's probably from Old Suebian.
> > As you remember the Suevi ruled NW Iberian c. 409-584.
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> Yep. Anyway, Frison la:sk forces a reconstruction *laiweziko:n, with
> z rather than with r.
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The -s-/-r- (<- *-z-) alternation means the word should go on Schaffner's list of Verner-affected nouns in Germanic
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/65931
which I suspect are really loans from Venetic
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/65034
The presence of a derivative of *laiw- in Finnish (or perhaps the language of Tacitus' Fenni) points to the same neighbourhood.


Torsten