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
Elliott
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