[tied] Re: The wolf and the lamb (was: The other tale)

Another suggestion: *solh1-je- for "muddy, make dirty". If you decide to leave *nekWt- "darken(?)", the hypothetical 2sg. perfect would be *ne-nokWt-th2e (phonetically [-kW(t)st-]. BTW, I think the "lamb" word was more precisely *wre:n, with a syllabic ("Lindemannian") treatment of /r/ (something like [wrre:n]). "They want" should be *welonti or the like. The past tense of *wekW- seems to have been reduplicated (*we-wkW-et = *weukWet).

Cheers,

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: The wolf and the lamb (was: The other tale)

Herewith uppdated according to variopus members' later ideas. The laryngeals are represented by ! 2 3. You is sing., y'all is pl. - A lamb was jumping in a stream. ware:n !eselet sreumni - A wolf said to the lamb: wlkWos warenei !ewekWet :: - "You have muddied my drink. I will prosecute you for that.". "wodr nenokWta yod !epi3om. tWe 2ego:mi ad yewos to:i." // {kWem} was suggested as "which" here, but I thought that originally // {kW-} was only interrogative and indefinite and that relative was {yo-}. - The lamb said "But I was well downstream from you". ware:n wekWet, "!esm !su supo tebhei." - The wolf said, "But you have muddied it. And my father died because of you". wlkWos wekWet, "tod nenokWta. p2te:r mos !egWhnto tebhei ma." - The lamb said "How can I be responsible for something that happened - before I was born?". nu ware:n !ewekWet: "kWo:i !eso:m potis kWesyo proi genmni moi !ebheut?" // "For what I am to be the master of something that was before my birth?" - The wolf said "If it wasn't you, it was one of your people. wlkWos wekWet: Ne tu !esye:t, oinos tuo:m [gen.pl] !e!est. - Y'all have scarcely spared me, // try: "Y'all have left little with/to me"? lelikWte min-[ending?] megHei. - y'all, y'all's shepherds, and y'all's dogs.". yu:s, poties kWe usmo:s, kwones kWe usmo:s." - And the wolf seized the lamb and took him away, nu wlkWos !ekapet warenm, tom apo !ebheret ma. - and in the bottom of the forest ate him. druo:m bhudhmni tom !e!edst ma. // Latin, and the early Greek infinitive `edmenai', seem to say that IE {ed-} // = "eat" was athematic. When IE grammar brought two dentals together, they // seem to have been exploded separately, and a glide `s' developed between. - The rich always turn the law to get what they want. 2aywei to:s reiwantes regmn werenti, yod welnti kapyonti.

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