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Idicustuft - tablecloth (<<table-sheet)

Next word: Cart (that someone sells food out of)

vikt - impossible

Next word: Tab (as in at a bar)

Fire (man-made, controlled: alTuft
Fire (wild, uncontrolled): alTág

Next word: incantation, spell-formula

zombie: nítraks (<<corpse-specter)

Next word: dowry

Calligraphy: al-dárafriktu
Calligraphic: dárafrikti(y)
Etymologically from "neat writing" (al-dáraft riktu)


Next word: husbandry

I've got nothing on it coming into existence, but as for other languages, my historical linguistics professor mentioned that (at least some varieties of) Swiss German make use of it. He seemed to think there was little or no distinction between it and English, but I sort of doubt that. Any Swiss Ger...

This is where we need to distinguish precision (resolution) from accuracy (correctness). I doubt my precision is typically better than the nearest eighth (N NE E SE S SW W NW) in the absence of landmarks, so definitely less precise than the division into sixteenths you describe for the Thaayorre. B...

I like the idea behind this development, but I'm not sure I see the point of all the | notation. Wouldn't just a . be enough to syllabify things properly, or am I missing something?

Shm Jay wrote:When’s the movie coming out? And the themed toys with a McDonald’s Happy Meal?

It's been here.

(1) Je m'en vais à l'école : (a) /Z9ma~vAalekOl/ (b) /Zma~vAaEkOl/ (c) /Zma~vE::kOl/ ...how do you even pull words out of that? Have you seen close transcriptions of casual English? It's just as complex, if not worse. Words are messy in natural speech, without clear boundaries and with lots of feat...

What's the problem with you? I'm posting here ONLY arguments related to Jörg "Europic" hypothesis and its postulates, for example, his statement that Anatolian and "classical" PIE shared a common 'wheel' lexicon, which I've shown to be false. Appologies are welcome. "Asserted" and "shown" do not me...

finlay wrote:

Octaviano wrote:Unfortunately, he's on the crackpot side as he follows Vennemann in thinking Basque is a descendant of OEH.

thought that word was offensive

Only when it's part of an ad octavianum argument.

In his book Des steppes aux océans , Martinet gives 4 possible allophones for PIE *H 2 : Voiceless: uvular fricative [ χ ] or pharyngeal fricative [ ħ ] Voiced: uvular fricative [ ʁ ] or pharyngeal fricative [ ʕ ] *H 3 is the same than *H 2 but labialized. *H 1 is either a glottal stop [ ʔ ] or a v...

@ WeepingElf: Do you have a list of these names, or a handy pointer as to where I could find one? Also how do you deal with the internal evolution of these names from their acquisition though to writing or language divergence? I don't know of a list that is available online, but Krahe's article Die...

@ WeepingElf: Do you have a list of these names, or a handy pointer as to where I could find one? Also how do you deal with the internal evolution of these names from their acquisition though to writing or language divergence?

An exception is *hal- , which most likely means 'salt', as it is found in names of places where salt was produced. It appears to be a cognate of PIE *sh2al- 'salt'. This case is very illustrative of Paleo-Eurasian *H 2 - > PIE *s- in words like *H 2 elA 'to dwell, live' > PIE *selo- 'dwelling, sett...

Fur has [z] as an allophone of /j/ Fixed. [] stand for allophones/phonetic transcriptions, // for phonemes. Thanks. :oops: I've had non-phonetician lecturers, like a psycholinguistic one recently, whose disciplines overlap with phonetics, and whenever it comes up they just have to sheepishly admit ...

This is a thread about the lexicon I spent months compiling so that people could comment on any apparent errors in either my compilation, transcription, or possibly in the source material. Unless you want to look for encoding errors in the file, take this discussion of loans into PIE into another t...

*kwekwlos is clearly from *gwVrkwVl, which also gives Basque gurpil

Nortaneous wrote:

Vortex wrote:

Mbwa wrote:
-no labials except /w/

It has /w/ under the velar POA so I think it's suppose to be /M\/ and not /w/.

nah, /w/ gets listed under the velar POA all the time

True...also /ɰ/ without /w/ is incredibly weird. Other than the vowels though this doesn't look strange to me.

This sounds like the same argument for the PIE word for 9 being related to the word for new, as though they had just invented the concept of 9, and were calling it "the new number".

If '10' were really from deik_j, one would expect it to be dik_j plus a suffix, not dek_j.

Allophony followed by sound changes. For example, in English, /t/ is aspirated in initial position, but not when preceded by another consonant. We don't notice the difference because they are allophones. [stap] <stop> "halt" [tʰap] <top> "highest part of an object" Now say English undergoes a sound...