User:Dr. C.S. Lewis-Barrie, Ph.D.

To Do

 * Source Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰībʰ- in Grimm's Law.
 * Source Tocharian kip, kwípe in Grimm's Law.
 * Rewrite etymology of Wife using Oxford sources.

Venetic
"But another set of 'isoglosses' connects Venetic with Germanic. Perhaps most striking is the fact that the accusative singular of the first personal pronoun has acquired a gutteral consonant from the nominative: thus eχo, meχo ＝ Goth. ik, mik (also Hittite uk, ammuk). The pronoun of identity also shows a close resemblence in both languages: Ven. sselboi sselboi ＝ 'sibi ipsi'; cf. OHG. der selb selbo. In the vocabulary, too, there is an important point of resemblence: if a•hsu is correctly interpreted as 'Herma', then it may well be cognate with the Germanic ansu- 'divinity'. That the Veneti were once in close geographical proximity to the Germans is suggested by the mention of Venedi by ancient authorities in the region of the Vistula."

– Leonard Palmer, The Latin Language, pp42-43

Germanic Philology
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Italic Philology
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Subpages

 * Germanic
 * Italic
 * Wife