Re: [tied] Ice age, plate tectonics and PIE

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From: "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ice age, plate tectonics and PIE


> Similarly, if they had depicted an elephant on some epigraphs, they
> might have called it, say, ibha

"Might have"? They might have called it anything. How can you know without deciphering the texts?

> (recognized as a PIE word).

"Ibha" is NOT recognised as a PIE word. Pace Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, there is no reconstructible PIE 'elephant' word.

> So, I am looking for words which were in use at about the 7th/6th
> millennium in this region now noted as a PIE area.

Noted by whom? By repeating the same thing over and over again you won't make it less unreal than it is.

Piotr