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Word final *n in indo-european n-stems

2008-07-25T17:25:13Z

*n stems in PIE traditionally end in *-ōn in the nominative which comes from an earlier *on-s (Known as Szemerenyi's law). While this is a very common reconstruction, much of the reconstruction is dependant on one language, Greek. Greek n-stems i...

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[maʕmaʕ] I love you

2007-11-04T13:05:04Z

It's relatively universal in languages that the names for father and mother are labials followed by the vowel 'a'. In Dutch we have 'mama' en 'papa'. Sometimes you also see something like 'dada' (or daddy) for father. But all together, it's genera...

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Futuristic Thematic Vowel Switch

2007-08-03T17:55:15Z

I've just returned from my holiday to Brittanny, France. Of course I picked up a Breton grammar, a dictionary and a book, I wouldn't recognise myself if I wouldn't put time and money into a minority language. So here I am, writing a small entry o...

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One hunderd

2007-05-24T20:18:58Z

Lately I've had some questions from several friends what the Centum & Satem split is about. Mostly because I have fairly controversial theories on this. So whenever I talk about Centum vs. Satem language split, and my theories about it, people gen...

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Illness, Old-age and Death

2007-02-10T20:57:01Z

All right, my blog hasn't been as active as I would like it to be. So, I'm going to change the way I'm going to go about this blog. From now on, I will make a weekly post on saturday. This post will analyse a sentence, or piece of text, from any l...

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