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Re: Eastre & *Aus-

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, April 28, 2000, 22:18
At 20:35 28.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
>At 12:28 pm +0200 28/4/00, BP Jonsson wrote: >[...] > > > >You might add Sanskrit _u.sas_ (f. s-stem) and the related verb _vas_ > >"shine", and perhaps also _u.s_ "emit heat". Combining all this evidence > >the IE root must have been *h2ews/*H2wes. > >Thanks - some enlightenment at last - but I guess that's to be expected >from a Buddhist ;)
Oh please, this selfish person is always an easy prey to flatter, especially from wise ones like your esteemed person! This ignorant one is not a dispenser of Enlightenment, but one in need of receiving it, like the deer seeking water in the desert! (Now I bet that simile gives you a deja-vu -- I snatched it out of a text! :-) B'sides 'tis hardly the Buddhist speaking, but the _bhaasavidvaan_.
> >These roots whose middle grade > >can have either a falling or a rising diphthong are aptly called > >_samprasaara.na_ "floating" in Sanskrit. Note that the Greek h- has > >nothing to do with the I.E. h2-, but is an assimilation from the medial > >-s- > -h- > -0-. > >Yep - I thought I'd shown that, but maybe I hadn't made it clear.
You did. I just wanted to nip any notion that the Greek /h/ be related to IE /h1...3/ in the bud! [...]
> >I'm afraid only Ray can follow this. > >Your fears were unfounded, as you've seen from responses already. You >underestimate the lucidity of your explanations :)
I forgot what a linguistically keen audience I was talking to! :-) /BP B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpj@netg.se mailto:melroch@my-deja.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~__ Anant' avanaute quettalmar! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ___ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ I neer Pityancalimeo\ \_____/ /ar/ /_atar Mercasso naan ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\_______/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)