tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post3842908780676162662..comments2023-09-24T05:45:23.811-05:00Comments on Paleoglot: A European 'wolf' wanderwordGlen Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-86848210209399842402011-07-11T21:08:23.216-05:002011-07-11T21:08:23.216-05:00This rabbit-hole just keeps getting deeper.
• Wha...This rabbit-hole just keeps getting deeper.<br /><br />• What are the interactions between Latin <i>hircus</i> "he-goat", "Sabine" <i>fircus</i> "ibid.", Latin <i>(h)irpex</i> "harrow" and Oscan <i>hirpus</i> "wolf"?<br />• What's going on with the Indo-European languages with wolf/fox doublets not unlike Latin's lupus and vulpēs (e.g. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18098587142108525189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-23907536164134446662011-03-01T14:18:55.000-06:002011-03-01T14:18:55.000-06:00Ketsuban: "Germanic *wulfaz looks for all the...<b>Ketsuban: <i>"Germanic *wulfaz looks for all the world like a borrowing from Latin vulpēs prior to Grimm's Law."</i></b><br /><br />I was thinking along those lines but since that shift took place by the mid-1st millennium BCE already, dare I say, Etrusco-Rhaetic intermediacy is one solution, through Umbrian.<br /><br />What I find interesting though is the second vowel in <i>Glen Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02440249042894225949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202150793869184289.post-51824383279754745052011-03-01T02:03:10.022-06:002011-03-01T02:03:10.022-06:00IE animal names certainly seem to be a tricky lot,...IE animal names certainly seem to be a tricky lot, don't they?<br /><br />Germanic <i>*wulfaz</i> looks for all the world like a borrowing from Latin <i>vulpēs</i> prior to Grimm's Law. The irregular <i>p</i> of <i>lupus</i> is generally taken as evidence that the word is borrowed from Osco-Umbrian (where PIE <i>kʷ</i> regularly gives <i>p</i>).<br /><br />I suggest that <i>vulpēs</i> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18098587142108525189noreply@blogger.com