[tied] Re: Satem shift

--- In cybalist@..., "petegray" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > Alas, I'm out of my mind.
> > ..if I find [centum branch] roots differing by -k-/-s- in the

etymological

> > dictionaries I get suspicious.
>
> Then you should check the satem branch forms of those roots, and

see if they

> show an original *k or *k', and an original *s.
>
> In the case of the two roots you suggested, I can find neither,

except for

> the obvious example that Piotr mentioned, which you clearly cannot

mean.

>
> Peter

In what way does a satem branch language show an "original k"
(outside of the etymological dictionaries, of course) and how would I
tell the difference from an "original *s"?

Torsten