[Ads-l] How to say "figure"

[Jonathan Lighter]

My SWAG is Lithuanian.  Don't know why. "-As" finale?  Just a feeling....

JL

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:27 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Indo-European
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> Speaking of Indo-European languages, have you noted Tom's ethnicity, as
> revealed by his surname?
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:25 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Reminds me of the Indo-European tendency to shift marked palatovelars to
> > unmarked plain velars, for some dialects (centum, I think). According to
> > Gamkrelidze & Ivanov, IIRC.
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