Re: Baby/infant

On 8/24/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Philip Newton wrote:
> > On 8/23/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz wrote:
> > > "nípio" *seems* to combine the roots for "new" and "child".
> >
> > Well, it does share the consonant n- with "néos" and the consonant p-
> > with "paidí"...
>
> It actually shares the "né" (nu eta) with "néos",
But néos is nu-epsilon-omicron-sigma, while nípio (as you noted) uses
eta and not epsilon.

This made me further doubt a relationship between the two (though
eta-epsilon correspondences are not, of course, unheard-of, e.g. aêr
(nom.) with eta vs aeros (gen.) with epsilon. Both use epsilon in MG,
though: aeras, aera.)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>