Indo‑European ‘ego’, Slavic ja = Runic ek, and Celtic Ø

The paper gives a new account of the development of the first person singular pronoun in Indo-European languages, finding innovating areals (1) Anatolian *VK; (2) South-East Indo-European (Indo-Iranian, Armenian) *eg’‑H‑ém; (3) Greek, Latin, Venetic *eg’‑(ó)H; (4) North I-E (Albanian, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, Thracian, Tocharian) *eg’

Resian Pëňt’/Pëgnt’ ‘Stone, Cliff’

Etymology of Resian dialect (Slovene) Pëňt’/Pëgnt’ ‘Stone, Cliff’

Petrology of the Late Proterozoic(?)-Early Cambrian Arumbera Sandstone, Western MacDonnell Ranges, North-Central Amadeus Basin, Central Australia

The Arumbera Sandstone consists of mappable informal units which are repeated in a vertical, cyclic succession. Sandstones of fluvial origin form resistant strike ridges separated by strike valleys, which consist of recessive sandstones and mudrocks of marine origin. Lithofacies 1a, 2b, and 3a are probably of marine origin in intertidal environments. Trace fossil assemblages in lithofacies 3a suggest Skolithos and Cruziana inchnofacies were present. Lithofacies 1e, 2a, 2c, 3b, and 4a are probably of fluvial origin, as the result of coalescing braided stream deposits. The Arumbera Sandstone probably was deposited in a deltaic environment characterized by low wave energy, a micro tidal range, and high input of sand-sized sediment br braided streams. In the western MacDonnell Ranges, the Arumbera overlies the Julie or Pertatataka formations along a sharp but conformable contact. The present upper contact is a low-angle regional unconformity which contains paleotopographic elements that resemble pediments, stripped structural plains, and steep erosional scarps. These paleotopographic surfaces are overlain from east to west by the Chandler, hugh River, and Cleland formations in an onlap relationship. The Arumbera Sandstone is considered part of a molasse sequence associated with the Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Petermann Ranges orogeny, which occurred along the present southern and southwestern margin of the Amadeus Basin. The uplifted Petermann Ranges shed detritus from metamorphic, sedimentary, and minor amounts of plutonic rocks. Paleocurrents suggest most terrigenous material was derived from the southwestern margin of the basin. The composition of detrital grains and lack of weathering features in labile detrital grains suggest a hot, semiarid to arid climate in the source area and in the basin of deposition. Sandstone samples examined petrographically primarily are subphyllarenites, subarkoses, arkoses, feldspathic litharenites, and lithic arkoses. The inferred paragenetic sequence is: Eogenetic: (1) mechanical compaction, (2) dust rims of hematite, illite, and chlorite, and (3) hematite cement; Mesogenetic: (4) syntaxial feldspar overgrowths, (5) syntaxial quartz overgrowths, (6) hematite cement, (7) carbonate cement, (8) kaolinite replacement, (9) formation of secondary porosity; Telogenetic: (10) chert cement and (11) gibbsite or hematite cement

Slavic *mokrъ, Irish ainmech ‘wet, rain’

Avtor prikazuje etimološke povezave med baltščino, slovanščino, albanščino in keltščino za pojem ‘moker, dež’, ki se kažejo v rekonstrukciji praindoevropskega korena *mek- (~ *mok-). The author demonstrates the etymological connections among Baltic, Slavic, Albanian, and Celtic for the term ‘wet’, reflected in PIE *mek- (~ *mok-)

Giovanni Frau, Dizionario toponomastico del Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Udine, Istituto per L'Enciclopedia del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1978. Pp. 130.

This first integral collection of the place names of this complex and interesting region is avowedly intended as a work for general interest - as such it does not claim to be exhaustive and has not been delayed until all Flurnamen could be collec­ ted; but in fact Frau has given us a thoroughly scholarly work. A highly informative introduction (5-24), adorned with seven reproductions of older maps and plans, is followed by the dictionary proper. The front matter includes maps (showing comu­ ni) of the four provincie of the region, an excellent concise bibliography of 26 items, a useful brief glossary of technical terms, and some welcome remarks on the contri­ bution of toponomastics as a discipline

The Physio-Chemical Properties for the Interior of Enceladus

We have reviewed the current physical and chemical conditions of the Enceladus sub-surface environment, including the composition, temperature, pH and pressure. Here we have defined some of these parameters and, through the aid of modelling, will define and refine the remaining parameters needed for our experimental work. Simulations of the chemical reactions occurring within Enceladus can then be carried out to advance our understanding of the internal environment of Enceladus and help evaluate its potential habitability. Once a better understanding of the chemical reactions occurring at the rock-water interface has been carried out, then potential analogues on Earth can be evaluated and known microbial life can be tested to see if it could survive the conditions of Enceladus

Three brief studies: slovene and albanian

Bernard Comrie, in his contribution  on the  Slavic languages to the volume edit­ ed by J. Gvozdanović (p. 766), reports a fact of particular historical interest. In pre­ senting the forms and behavior of the 'teens amongst the numerals' Comrie states that two accentual patterns apply, an oxytone and a recessive, i.e. -nájst and ÚNIT­ najst. However, he points out that exceptionally in the case of '1l' only enájst the oxy­ tone occurs