Re: Priimary Stem Formants: =*H, -*i/y, *-u/w

On 2008-04-07 23:00, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> 1. For sure that this a bad joke Piotr, especially when in our last
> discussions you was faraway to have the right arguments.

The fact that I withdrew from a pointless discussion doesn't mean that I
surrendered to your argumentation.

> 2. I didn't talk about Jasanoff => wrong assumption wrong conclusion
>
> 3. I'm not the first that link the semantism of dHeh1- with that one
> of dHeh1-i- => do you need a bibliography on this subject?

OK, do quote earlier arguments in favour of the connection if you have
found some.

> 4. By the way, The pattern -eu -eh2 -em was proposed for the first
> time by Benveniste : I didn't see any reference to him in your
> article regarding "the meaning of life" or in this forum.

The existence of the set has become common knowledge by now (and I think
Hirt and maybe others realised it well before Benveniste). One doesn't
have to reference the obvious, just as one doesn't have to quote de
Saussure every time the laryngeals are mentioned. LIV likewise regards
*drah2-/*drem-/*dreu- as related without mentioning Benveniste (or any
other source) too. The parallellism between *drem-/*drah2- and
*gWem-/*gWah2- is also common knowledge and I don't claim to have
discovered it. My personal contribution consists in adding *gWeu- to
complete the pattern. I don't think it has been done by anyone before.

Piotr