Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

Marco Moretti wrote:

> Hello, Glen.
> If I'm not wrong, you consider all you can't attest as not existing.
> I remember a long discussion about possible IE loanwords in Etruscan.
> Transparent borrowings like Etruscan nefts < *nepo:ts were absurdly
> dismissed by you because you can't prove that Latin nepos:s is from
> *nepo:ts. Final reduction of IE *-t-s in -s occurred in several IE
> languages like Italic, Greek, Celtic, but you seem to ignore it.
> Finally you said: an IE *nepo:t-s is not documented in this form so
> it doesn't exist, so Etruscan nefts is native.
>
> Marco

such a irony of the fate: PIE *ne-po:t- was reduced in Latin to "nepos",
but its oblique forme was "nepotis", thus the East Romance got it as
"nepot" (rom. word).

How are these "changes" called? Cyclical changes or "back to roots"
sometimes?:-)))

Alex