Re: CHAT: "Frogman" -- an IE language!
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 13, 2000, 12:02 |
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* daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> [000513 13:13]:
> Danny Wier wrote:
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> > Frogman is both a "centum" and a "satem" language, and it also has undergone
> > a Grimm's Law-like change as Germanic and Armenian have. So far, I have:
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> What's "centum" and "satem"?
Very roughly:
The word the number hundred is a version of in a western and eastern
indo-european language respectively. Shows some of the differences
between the two branches, and is used to classify an IE lang as either
western or eastern.
t.