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  • Instead the received wisdom, including that of the great Pokorny, is that the ul of Ulaid is from Irish ulcha meaning "beard".

    Ulster etymology nwhyte 2009

  • Brown, Michael Disco and Diana Pokorny serving as executive producers.

    12 Movie Clips from VALENTINE’S DAY Starring Every Actor in Hollywood – Collider.com 2010

  • Mallory and Adams have attributed κῆπος to an Indo-European root *ḱāpos 'garden'1 while Pokorny had claimed a different root *kam-p- 'to bend' for the Latin reflex while dragging in another Greek word καμπή 'a winding of a river' as alleged cognate.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • Stefan Pokorny on Oct 4, 2008 muito, muito foda!!! no more works …

    Watchmen Mania: New Photos, Comic Comparisons, and More! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Once we finally plough Pokorny's root into the mire where it belongs, his posthumous 'penis' can't get in the way of a more credible Tyrrhenian root for 'goat', backed up by Hesychius' own admission which Pokorny appears to have dismissed too eagerly as erroneous hearsay in a presumed classical age of ignorance perhaps.

    Sowing wild oats and plowing the fields 2010

  • Once we finally plough Pokorny's root into the mire where it belongs, his posthumous 'penis' can't get in the way of a more credible Tyrrhenian root for 'goat', backed up by Hesychius' own admission which Pokorny appears to have dismissed too eagerly as erroneous hearsay in a presumed classical age of ignorance perhaps.

    Archive 2010-09-01 2010

  • Pokorny, why don't we try something else that doesn't require as many suppositions?

    Minoan inscription HT 104 2009

  • Pokorny takes it back to a hypothetical Proto-Germanic *aluth and claims a lost IE root stem that only survived in the Germanic tongues, While I usually never argue with Pokorny, one instance in one branch does not allow us to assume an PIE root for a word.

    Never judge a book by its nom de plume 2008

  • Yes, methinks that some of you have been fooled by that blasted Pokorny again, so let me explain.

    Long high vowels in Proto-IE 2008

  • I can only find reflexes for Avestan and Greek in Pokorny as *məḱ- mas- and makrós, respectively.

    Enticed by a drunken thought 2008

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