[tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

From: S.Kalyanaraman
Message: 19004
Date: 2003-02-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> Take *pors'as "pig" (Finn. porsas).
The PIE form was *pork^os, the Proto-Satem form *pors'os, the Proto-
Indo-Iranian form *pars'as (attested in Saka and Kurdish). The
Finnic form fits none exactly.

I am citing from SS Misra (p. 19):

The form FU *porc'as for and beside *p;ors'as, 'piglet' should be
derived from *pars'as rather than parc'as Indo-Iranian form normally
reconstructed as such.