Re: P.Gmc. *skakula-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> Without knowing the exact details of the soundlaws which governed borrowing, I still find it implausible (i.e. unprincipled) that an IE word with four consonants would enter Arabic (or any Semitic language) with only three. Note for example Hebrew <pilleges> 'courtesan, concubine' which is identical to Doric <pallax>, Latin <paelex>, etc. The ultimate source is unknown, but Hebrew-speakers did not squeeze out one consonant in order to fit the triliteral system. Plenty of words in Sem. lgs. exist outside the triliteral system.
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In my notes it's:

pilleges^ \ pileges^ Heb;

supposedly borrowed from:

pallakís G;

prob. through Phoenician.


The source is PIE * pYaLt.í:x pYaLt.ík+ > * pYaLr.ík+, pYaLr.ikó+ \ etc. (the same as * pYLt.ó+ > * pYut.ó+ = small _ / boy / etc.).