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

Check out the "Thracian language" Wikipedia site and
then also look at Ivan Duridanov's site --linked to
the Wik site
Then see for yourself and let us know what you think

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:14 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: The
> meaning of life: PIE.
> *gWiH3w-
>
>
> On 2008-02-11 11:06, fournet.arnaud wrote:
> > From: Piotr Gasiorowski
> >> So it would seem that Thracian is a Satem
> language,
> >> right?
> >
> > I'd say that a language with <esbo-> for 'horse'
> must be Satem.
> > Piotr
> > ======
> > A loanword from Iranian does not make this
> language Satem.
> >
> > Do you have a better word, unlikely to be a late
> loanword ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ===========
>
> Why should <esbo> be a late loanword? It has Thrac.
> /e/, not /a/, and
> the spelling <b> (presumably = [v]) for *w seems to
> be regular in
> Thracian. There are of course other examples as
> well, e.g. <diza> 'fort,
> town' from *dHeig^H- (cf. Gk. teîkHos 'city-wall,
> fortification').
>
> Piotr
> =============
>
> Because the late and post-diaspora introduction of
> horses
> into already scattered IE languages
> is obvious, and therefore a *bad* argument,
> this word <esbo> proves nothing.
>
> The word <diza> is better.
>
> What else have we got ?
>
> Arnaud
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