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in reply to a message by thegriffon
Thank you!!
I think I understand what you're saying...
I am not educated about these old societies and their languages, and would be grateful for some more conversation on it.
I'm aware that languages from older times can sometimes have pronunciations that seem pretty counterintuitive to a modern reader.
So... -Sagilos, sag-, seg- seem like a very far cry from -hael. But they are cognates? How did they pronounce these?
Thank you again!!
I think I understand what you're saying...
I am not educated about these old societies and their languages, and would be grateful for some more conversation on it.
I'm aware that languages from older times can sometimes have pronunciations that seem pretty counterintuitive to a modern reader.
So... -Sagilos, sag-, seg- seem like a very far cry from -hael. But they are cognates? How did they pronounce these?
Thank you again!!
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Older Indo European languages have nouns and adjectives with many cases ending in -s. So words beginning with s were prone to rebracketing. -s sagilos becomes -s agilos and the h is added to restore an initial consonant. More recently rebracketing results in a nadder and a napron becoming an adder and an apron, and an eft becoming a newt.
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