Refining early Basque criteria (miau)

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Sat Dec 18 21:29:18 UTC 1999


X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:

>In Swedish, the sound a snake makes is called <va:s>.  In Polish, a word for
>snake is <was>.

That's actually <wa,z.> (G: <we,z.a>), i.e. /vo~S/ /ve~Za/, from
CSlav. *o~z^- < *angi-.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl



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