Re: park, was *pVs- for cat

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

>
> PIE B *Hwer- 'to cover, to close' (with various suffixes)
> Romance barra 'bar, barrier', *berruculu- 'bolt'
>

IMHO, Latin parie:s 'wall' would also belong here.

> On the other hand, in the lexical group represented by Altaic
> *p`árà(n), which designates some type of latticework, we can
> include Paleo-European *par(r)- and *waranda:, the later with a lenition
> *pH > *p\ > *w. These two would respectively represent the PIE A and PIE
> B types, although in this case there're no actual PIE reconstructions.
>

Of course, this is where I'd put West Romance *parra(n) and West Germanic *parrik-/*parruk- 'fence'.

From a semantical point of view, PIE *bhel- 'plank; girder', with various velar suffixes (probably reflecting a former glottalic): *bhºl-Hk´-, *bhºl-Hg´-, *bhºl-H-n-g´-, *bhel-g´-, *bhel-g´h-, would be a perfect match for the above words. However, sound correspondences are different from the usual ones (the match predicted by them is *pjalagV 'fortress, group of houses'), thus indicating borrowing on either side or more likely a deeper history.

Arnaud's suggestion as regarding Latin pergula leaded me to PNEC *bVrk'wV 'enclosure, frame; staircase', whose scarce attestation among NEC languages makes it a likely Wanderwort.