Re: [tied] Words versus Roots (was Does Koenraad Elst Meet Hock´s

From: P&G
Message: 17128
Date: 2002-12-11

>An example is the word for 'red'. The stem is *h1reudH- (unless Greek
>misleads us about the laryngeal), but what was _the_ word?

In which dialect of PIE? Or are you hoping to discover a dialect-free
version? There may never have been a single original proto-dialect from
which the others differentiate. PIE should I believe, be seen as a cluster
of close dialects, influencing each other mutually and unequally.

Peter