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Re: /T/, /D/ Re: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds

From:Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 16:54
Well..okay, I should have changed the title, but I'm
not sure what I would have named it.

 I noticed a chance similarity between Gearthnuns and
Nindic here:

  Hinession (a Nindic language):
    sevi "to sleep" ~ hevi "to sleep"  /sevi, hevi/
    gerund: hofna "sleeping"  /hOfn@/

> The modern Géarthnuns verb "héf", "sleep", has an > alternative > archaic/dialect/poetic form "héth", which only > really has an impact > on the hortative/jussive form ("zçöt-héf" vs. > "héthta"). That's the > only example I'm aware of -- I guess the "trend" was > quashed on > Géarthtörs before it even got started. > > Kou
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