Re: [tied] Re: Palatalization

From: alex_lycos
Message: 21819
Date: 2003-05-12

----- Original Message ----- > No accidents, but rather... whims: people
> choose to speak as they like ("wie ihnen der
> Schnabel gewachsen ist", once Luther said)
> If sometimes they prefer pronunciations that
> are similar or identical with ancient ones,
> why not? But OTOH continuity + no change over
> several millennia, well, that's rara avis
>
> George


I want to verify more of them and the PIE roots of the words which are
supposed to be the words which have been loaned into Romanian.They are
not too much, I guess they are under 50 at all and should be possible to
be analysed.