A note about Wenetaic Roots (Re: The Magical Tree (Translation project))

Padraic writes:

>>>>>>
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:
> of Indo-european langs.  There's a special prize (inna bun) for anyone
Does it perhaps bear a striking similarity to something that might just
be labelled "Miscellaneous Pork-like Product"?  Makes me eyes water, that
does!
<<<<<<
WHAT?!?!?! Not content with a special prize, you actually want to know which
particular species it's supposed to resemble????

>>>>>>
> who can deduce the etymologies of them, with some plausible sound-change
> rules.
I'll take a stab at a few.  I don't recognise much of the morphology (I
guess this is supposed to be the case?)  Remind me: is Wenetaic an IE
lang?  Or a nonIE lang whose vocabulary seems to about 80% or more IE?
<<<<<<

It's sposed to be IE.  More or less.  The morphology is supposed to be fairly
non-IE.

You've actually derived my roots from much older sources than I did.  I'll try
and explain myself, giving the full paradigm for the first couple (until you get
into the swing of things), and the source that I derived them from.

>so- appears to be from saawel- or perhaps sun-
The root is so-, soslu-, solsu-, solosu- from a dictionary form so(lu)
Actually from Latin

>pukhtu- from bheug- (swell)
putu-, pukhtu-, putkhu-, putukhu-, dictionary form putu(kh) (L. fruct-)

>phorophe- from bher- (bear)
phore-, phophre-, phorphe-, phorophe- (PIE. bher-)

>phowphe"- maybe a reduplication of pooi- (graze)
dict form. phowe" (L. -phorus, E. -vore)

>wece- from wet- (year)
This came from (I think) Italian, or maybe French.  I don't recall.

>pato- perhaps from pu- (rot, decay)
>patapo- perhaps from pu- (rot, decay)
Greek. paTo- in E. pathology, etc

>mamnu- from man- (man)
Dictionary/(NS) form manu, from Proto-World

>pukhupi- from peuk- (prick; whence pugilist)
Dictionary/(NS) form pukhu.  I don't remember the derivation of this.  Probably
from "pugilist".

>wiwkhi- perhaps associated with wen- (strive for, whence win)
Dictionary form wikhi (L. victus)

>muro- from mei- (build fortifications)
Yep.  (It. muro)

>makhe- from meg- (great)
Yep.

>moru- from mer- (harm; die)
Yep.  The Dictionary form is moru(t).

>kapke- from kap- (grasp)
Yep.  Dictionary/(NS) form is kape.

>I wonder if phomu- is in some way related to Latin pomum.
From German "Baum", I don't know why.

>-ne from ne (not)
Yep.  I just pulled a random syllable starting /n/ out of the air.

>a- perhaps from ad- (near, at)
>o- perhaps from al- (beyond)
>yi- from ghee- (go away)
I thought I'd simply invented these.  Now I know better :-)

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Pb






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