Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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No; 1 shows dr > tr , the other tr > dr, 1 shows kYw > qu, the other kW > qu, making them separate.

> --- On Tue, 3/5/13, stlatos <sean@...> wrote:
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> From: stlatos <sean@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Stacking up on standard works
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 2:22 AM
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" wrote:
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> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" wrote:
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> > > > There's no reason to expect a regular change for either above; quadru- shows tr > dr , dr > tr in taeter , maybe vitrum , and definitely:
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> > > In _quadri/u-_ we may have contamination with an old word for 'whetstone', *quadrum, replaced by _co:s_; cf. OE _hwaet_ 'keen, bold', OS _hwat_ 'id.', OHG _(h)waz_ 'sharp, rough, severe', ON _hvatr_ 'bold, vigorous'; OE _hwettan_, OHG _wezzan_, ON _hvetja_ 'to whet', from PGmc *xwatjanan. Whetstones are generally square and *quadrum could have passed into the meaning 'square', whence _quadra:re_ 'to make square', and squares have 4 corners.
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> Also, the L cognate is supposedly:
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> tri-quetrus = 3-cornered / triangular L;
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> also w -dr- > -tr-.
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