Re: two related languages

Hi Robert, I have to confess to not having done too systematic a
study of the cognates you listed, but I'll take a chance and make a
few guesses.

The first is that Language A is the most conservative.

I might reconstruct the words to be:

*pod, *bek, *pit, and *bod

By how much did I miss? :)

Cheers,
Eamon

Robert B Wilson wrote:
>
> here are a few cognates in some related conlangs:
>
>  a       b       c       d
> pod     pat     fod     fat
> bak     peg     veg     vek
> pet     bit     pit     fid
> bod     bad     bot     vad
>
> the languages are labelled 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'd' because i haven't given
> them names (or even assigned meanings to the words).  i am wondering how
> difficult it would be to reconstruct the original language (an a priori
> conlang).  i have the forms of these words in the original language, so
> if anyone wants to try to reconstruct them, it would be interesting to
> see how close they are to the actual words.
>
> Robert Wilson
> http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
> Yessessë Eru ontanë Menel ar Cemen.
> Yessessë ëa Quetta ar Quetta né as Eru ar Eru né Quetta.