Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

On Aug 10, 4:30 am, Dušan Vukotić <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 10, 3:27 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However, there is even a smaller chance that ghw could be changed to
b. It seems Ringe used the Old Irish "example" of the so-called gw =>
b sound change.

What makes the chance small?

Old Tamil [ku:gaI]* => Kannada [gu:be:] (goobay), meaning owl

* Dravidian has no phoneme /g<w>/ and no phoneme with allophone [g<w>]

Allegedly, PIE *gwous "cow" became OIr bo, Sanskrit
gauh, Gk bous! Ridiculous! In this case, there are the two different
roots (cowis related to hoof; Serb. govedo/copito), above mentioned
*gwous- (cow, govedo, gauh) and *bhel- (OE bulluc, Serb. bik, vo/l,
Gr. βου̂ς/bous).
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