[Ads-l] How to say "figure"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 27, 2020, at 6:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> My SWAG is Lithuanian.  Don't know why. "-As" finale?  Just a feeling….

Or more specifically (given knowledge gleaned from basketball surnames) -skas.

LH
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> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:27 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Indo-European
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>> Speaking of Indo-European languages, have you noted Tom's ethnicity, as
>> revealed by his surname?
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>> 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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