Re: [tied] IE root melH-

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From: Sergejus Tarasovas

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:14 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] IE root melH-

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

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>   I am sure you will get other dissenting opinions but I believe this
is an example of a PIE root in which the final long vowel is a result
of a final syllable with an originally long vowel, for the length of
which no "laryngeal" need be reconstructed:
>
>   *m.lé:
>
>   Cf. Hittite malla-, 'grind'.


I wonder who on this list except yourself is interested in your
idiosyncratic views on (the prehistory of) PIE -- I can't remember a
single case of such an interest. And if nobody is, what's the point of
communicating your views to us for years?

Sergei


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Patrick:

 

Ah, your insults are so much more interesting to _all_, are they not?

 

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