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Verner's Law, Part 1 of 3

Part 1 deals with the "discovery" of the first consonant shift, which, in effect, gave birth to the Germanic languages.  
 
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LordoftheHornets (1 month ago) Show Hide
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one thing missing form these videos, "Hi I'm Troy McClure, you might remember me from such films as ?" rofl
duiff (1 month ago) Show Hide
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(cont'd) Worth mentioning also that Calvert Watkin's "American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots" lists a whole bunch of English words ultimately derived from *(s)keu-, but not "house" (nor does it occur anywhere else in this work). I don't know what misgivings he had about mentioning it.
Latin "casa" doesn't have a clear etymology either, it's probably just a loan from a substrate language.
AvuncularFeldspar (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Hmm. All interesting stuff. I remember being a tad unsure about "house" when I made the film, but for some reason I went forward anyway. I probably should have taken the extra five minutes. As far as the Honorable Mr. Watkins is concerned, if he would be agreeable, I would gladly settle the house/casa matter via Rock, Paper, Scissors.
duiff (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Just found this series, great stuff! It would be great if it could get more people into comparative linguistics.
One thing that troubles me is the use of "house - casa" to illustrate the connection k~χ(h). While the h- in AHD/OE "hūs" may very well come from a k- (possibly from PIE *(s)keu- with s-mobile ("to cover"), as in sky, scum, ob-scu-re, but also hose, hoard, hut etc.), I don't see how casa is related to it, and I find no mention of this link in any of the works I have consulted.
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MaBu888 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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So, hwi nat ic teall thi ond eow eall of thaet. (I don't know the language I'm imitating now, BTW)
Bjovolf (2 months ago) Show Hide
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No, of course not, but it IS a great appetizer & overview. If I hadn't known any of this before, I would def. have become captivated by seeing these great, informative AND entertaining videos.

When learning English as a Dane it's
very overwhelming and extremely helpful to discover the numerous and deep similarities & parallel patterns in basic vocabulary and grammar. I was always very puzzled by this and later on began to study it and the deeper roots you describe here (hobby).
Bjovolf (2 months ago) Show Hide
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( ElvenDane here - my normal account has been temporarily suspended due to a music video that some "owner" complained about, even though I did comply with all the requests they made
:-) ).

Yes, of course those things are important too, but having a great sense of humour and not taking yourself too seriously has never hurt anyone, I think. This is really good for making people curious and introducing them to a topic that most would think a bit dry at a first glance.

Good job ;o)
Bjovolf (2 months ago) Show Hide
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That was just Jones' somewhat romantic look at things. He could see some structures that seemed to have been lost or partially eraded in Greek & Latin, so he thought of Sanskrit as being the more complete language - in the sense of being closer to the common source language.

A "law" because it explained a lot of patterns, but there were some strange, unexplained exceptions - so more like a
rule of thumb really that you should use with caution.
Bjovolf (2 months ago) Show Hide
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"eroded", that is Doh!

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