[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> If I ever thought I had presented a rationale in a similar form
> to 'getting worry over stone in shoe under one's skin', I assure
> you, would stop writing, and devote myself to other pursuits.

The following really don't seem much better, not that I'm asking
you to stop writing or anything:

> 3) *réudh-s-, 'pair of lips-body', 'reddish' (-*dh is a
> formant of bodily parts)
>
> 4) *réu-s-, 'pair of lips', 'pink'
>
> 5) *é:li-s-, 'smoke-come apart (release)-like', 'orangish'
>
> 6) *á:li-s-, 'water-come apart (release)-like', 'whitish'
>
> 7) *bhéro-s-, 'trunk-color', 'brownish'

They seem very convoluted and contrived to me.

David