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

Having once lived in the Pacific northwest and once
having visited Poland, I can testify that snot (or
snas) is all the same

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

> On 2008-02-12 18:11, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> > Where is your "Western American" evidence of a
> laryngeal in *hna:s-
> > 'nose', *gHla:dH- 'smooth' or *wa:g^- 'break'?
> >
> > Piotr
> > ============
> >
> > What about Salish :
> > North-west is nearly western.
> >
> > Shushwap : Hwnism or sHwnis "snot"
> > Colville : n&asm or sn&as "snot"
> >
> > Hence (sic !!)
> > hna:s
> > initial h is voiceless pharyngeal
> > a: is from a& voiced pharyngeal
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > ===================
>
> I'm not interested in an intercontinental comparison
> of snot but in your
> evidence that *hna:s- should be interested with an
> internal laryngeal
> _in PIE_, not in the hypothetical common ancestor of
> IE and Salish.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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