NSemitic borrowings: in response to Greg Web

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"Glen Gordon" <glengordon01 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Miguel
>believes as well that Etruscan semph is an odd sort of metathesis of the
>IE form *septm

Well, what I actually suggested was metathesis of *sepm ~ *sebm,
without the /t/, as in Germanic [and Samoyed (???)].

It doesn't *necessarily* follow that the word was borrowed from a
t-less model.  A cluster /ptm/ might easily have been reduced
anywhere along the line to /bm/ (Germanic), /mp/ (Etruscan) or
/dm/ (Slavic).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam