Re: irregularities

 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > I don't understand how one could think of the "day sky" and
> > the "night sky" as two different skies, since the passage from one to another
> > is slow and can be seen  (stars appear in the sky well before the sky is really
> > dark). Yet it's well accepted, through reconstruction evidence (and quite
> > strong for those two words) and maybe other evidence, that the Proto-Indo-
> > European people thought there was two skies turning around the planet, one for
> > the day and one for the night.
>
> Oooh, that's inspired me!  The word _uabiikadis_ (literally "place of
> the suns"), which I had defined as "sky" shall henceforth mean,
> depending on context, either "sky" or "day sky", and a new word,
> _uabiila_ (literally "place of the star(s)") shall mean "night sky".
> :-)

OOH!! Interesting to the max!! Actually, Silindion has this
distinction..but..several times enlarged:

NIGHT:
tessephe /tE`sE:fe/ "starry night sky"
elkani /El`ka:ni/  "all the stars, the place of stars'
olorna /o`lo:rna/  (same as above basically, except less religious)

DAY:
tarkil /`ta:rkIl/ "sky"
kildi /`ki:ldi/ "dome of the sky"

Elliott