Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

Yes, lumping them together as directly descended from
IE would be a heroic effort, as tantalizing as it
seems.
So it would seem that Thracian is a Satem language,
right?
I realize there's not much there, but any chance that
Thracian is indeed closely related to Balto-Slavic as
Duridanov (sp?) et al. claim?


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2008-02-11 07:55, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > I'm just trying think how you could get from
> > *bHr.h1g^o-
> > to *wrugos, briza and vrihi
>
> I was only interested in explaining <briza> --
> conjecturally, since
> given our limited knowledge of Thracian one could
> propose quite a few
> speculative hypotheses, none of them verifiable
> (*bHr.zdH-ah2 has been
> proposed as well). I don't think the
> Balto-Slavic/Germanic 'rye' word
> should be reconstructed with initial *wr- -- the
> Germanic evidence
> clearly points to *rugHi- ~ *rugHjo- (no *w
> anywhere), and the 'rice'
> word in Indo-Iranian is most likely a Dravidian
> loan, as generally
> assumed. In other words, I'm against lumping all
> these terms together by
> Procrustean means.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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