Re: Venom-spitting from a safe distance - Cybalist cave!

Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Feb 26, 3:17 pm, António Marques <m...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Feb 25, 8:02 pm, "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushe...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
1. *dn.g’hWa:/*dn.g’u: ‘tongue’. Because for the first sequence we
have talked thoroughly in Cybalist, I like just to repeat that last
sequence –g’hWa: (Skt jihva:, av hivza, Arm lezu, Gen lezvi: Old
Lating dingua, Lat lingua, OHD zunga: OCS jezy-k&: Toch A käntu, Toch
B käntwo etc.) was treated like –ghW and have yilded Alb –h.
Latin 'lingua' can be easily explained because it comes from the basis
BEL-GON; i.e. 'li-gon', PIE *lak- (...)
Don't let the fact that it was originally 'dingua' with an initial
dental (cognate with 'tongue') get in the way.

Interesting question, indeed…
I do not think that 'lingua' originated from O.Latin 'dungua';
especally if we know that the word 'lingua' is clearly connected to
Latin 'lingo' (lick).
What really happened here? ;-))
On this example, I would try to demonstrate the way in which similar
problems could be treated.

[meandering snipped]

You're like a person who shows up 45 minutes later for a one-hour meeting, starts bringing up topics for discussion oblivious to the fact that that material was already covered and resolved appropriately before his arrival, and gets resentful that everyone doesn't want to waste time rehashing the same discussion for his benefit.

If known written corpus of Latin demonstrates an earlier word "dingua" for "tongue" that over time got supplanted by "lingua", then one can tell by direct observation that "lingua" came from "dingua". On top of it, that transformation is consistent with a more general known phenomenon (a dialectal influence, the Sabine L). There is no need to reconsider these obvious and conclusive facts every time some self-fancied language sleuth, unaware and even contemptuous of the existing body of knowledge, comes along thinking he's found all kinds of cool and meaningful associations between "lingua" and other words in Latin and in other languages that start with "l".
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