supposedly *Hekwos :
LAtin equus ok
Gaulish epo- ok
Greek : ikkos, hikkos
should be etos (attic) or epos
(dorian)
Conclusion : Totally F... up.
Hittite : obviously an Iranian
loanword.
Sanscrit : ashvas
should be akas.
Won again...
Have you ever heard about Phonetic
Correspondances
as the founding principle of Comparatism
?
Please read your Classics for Epistemological
reference.
This word is a shame on the face of
Indo-Europeanists.
"It shows
every sign of being
inherited from PIE." : Every sign
of being not.
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Next :
*markos
supposedly a cognate limited to Celtic and
Germanic.
Looks healthy.
Is worth no good.
Asiatic languages for Mongolian to Chinese to
Burmese
point toward -o- as the vowel in this word :
"horse"
*mor is the first step toward
reconstruction
Next step : Chinese Mandarin is third tone :
ma3
=> hence glottal stop final.
so the reconstruction should be *mor-?-
that is PIE equivalent : *mor-H2-
We need a language within PIE where o > a
and r-H2-k > r-k with no vocalic
traces.
I suggest proto-Germanic as a good
candidate
and this is one more indication
that Germanic was in a very eastern
position.
between Asiatic languages and European
languages.
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All this neolithic data amount to nothing at
all.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:27
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Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re:
[tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian
--- In cybalist@... s.com,
"fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@ ...>
wrote:
> Most
"neolithic" words in PIE are limited geographically and don't
even pass
phonological controls : Cf. the absurd Hekwos horse : this
word is
obviously not a cognate but a wanderwort, with huge
phonetic
distortions.
But what tell-tale irregularities? It shows
every sign of being
inherited from PIE.
Richard.