Re: Sir = cheese (caseus); sour = kiseo (sour)

On May 2, 2:59 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 2, 2:03 am, Du¹an Vukotiæ <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Apr 30, 4:47 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx>

And you know this from going back in time and speaking with them, right?
In fluent Gon-Bel-Hor?

We could say so. Do you know what the Latin configo means? Assemble?
In this specific case, do you think that Latin figura (shape) is an
older variant than its compound version - configure (con + figo).
Compare words as combine, occupy, complete, complex, cumulus, heap,
globus, cap, cup etc., and I hope you will finally be able to  grasp
that all these words are derived from the Gon-Bel-Gon basis. Of
course, I know it would be to early to try to explain to you that
Latin similo is related to the Serbian words slika (image) and
adjective slièan (similar). In reality, Serb. slika/slièan is a
reduced form of the word saoblik, saoblièje (Serb. h/uoblièiti make
the same); i.e. these words sprung from the Gon-Bel-Gon basis too
(Serb. oblik /form, figure/). I think, there is no need to to make any
further explanations that the English words assimilate and assemble
have the same etymology (Lat. assimul-are) and that they are related
to accumulate and to the other words mentioned above.

Your lists of words are _semantically_ related. The words themselves,
their phonetic form, generally are not.

Of course, according to the established phonetic rules you cannot
expect the word accumulate to be changed into collect or vice versa,
because such sound changes are evidently impossible. In order to be
able to understand the whole process of changes, we must start from
the ur-basis - an agglutinated primal form - from which all the above
words (including himmel, nebel, heaven, zemlja), were derived. As you
can see, there is no phonetician in the world who would be able to
find any relevant phonetic connection among the words heaven and
zemlja/no. These words are absolutely different (uncomparable) and we
could follow their "common" development only if we knew the basis from
which these words originated.

It means, in such a "word to word equation" phonetic laws are
useless; but if we had started from the Gon-Bel-Gon basis we would
have been able to apply all the known rules of phonetic mutations.

DV
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