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DJ Orkidea — Metaverse
(Squarely instrumental and of Finnish origin.)

Could the g- in Celtic be an assimilation to the tautosyllabic -b- (continuing the PIE ban on *T-Dʰ roots)? From Matasović's dictionary I can find as possible counterevidence *kāgni "law", and various derivativs of *kred- "hart", but these continue IE *d *ǵ, not *dʰ *ǵʰ; and *kagjo- "pen", but that ...

I once work'd out a bunch of theoretical voices and realized that ditransitivs allow three varieties of most operations. Using a schematic representation A --B--> C with A donor, B theme, C recipient: • Valence-reducing voices 1) B ---> C 2) A ---> C 3) A ---> B • Reciprocal voice 1) A --B--> C & A ...

Nortaneous wrote:http://www.rogerblench.info/Linguistics ... 20page.htm

URL fix'd.

He's at least as reliable as any average historical linguist, I gather.

The "me three" thing has reminded me that my parents always referred to three-pronged pickle forks as "threeks" (because fo(u)rks have four prongs, so threeks have three...), and although I think it was originally a joke, they used it pretty much all the time, and it wasn't obvious to me growing up...

Last night, I dreamed (among other things, but this part stuck to my mind) I was in New York — first I was visiting a frend (who lived on a hill overlooking (!) the city), then at one point it changed to a holiday. At one point my parents turned out to be there too. In a discussion with them (in a h...

Yeniseian languages are supposedly quite horrible in their verbal morphology, with so many strata of thematic extensions, fossilized derivativ suffixes, incorporated objects, preverbal particles etc. that some of them have spontaneously reanalyzed the morphology as suffixing rather than prefixing.