Re: Existence of PIE

From: tgpedersen
Message: 51990
Date: 2008-01-28

> > Romance has nothing to do with all this in the first place.
>
> ***The point is that it may be possible to project these words***
> Proto-Romance,
>
> but such a projection would be wrong, possibly by
> virtue of the history above, possibly by their adoption into late
> Latin being too late for Proto-Romance.
> Richard.
>
> ==========
> Tsalam? t?ob
>
> No it may not.
> How do you create an acceptable proto-Romance form for
> Italian [gw-erra]
> and French guerre [ger] ?
>

How about *werra? Isn't that how you told us your grandfather would
pronounce it?


Torsten