Re: The progressive emergence of "Germanic"

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57452
Date: 2008-04-16

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:17 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] The progressive emergence of
"Germanic"


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> What about the absence of isoglosses with Italic and Celtic ?

> E.g. Pokorny *teu 'listen to, observe' #2008, pp1079-1080
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Dear Richard,
Have you looked at the data :
look at , protect, northern, angry, certain, cover, garment, leftside,
magician, good, soft, friendly, use, discipline,

Are you sure this is an isogloss ?
Arnaud
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> Pokorny *tra:gH 'drag, move, run' #2024, p1089
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This root is a phonotactical variant of *dh_r_H1_gh /*dh_H1_r_gh
Arnaud
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> Pokorny *bHren 'to stck out, edge #293, p167

Are you sure that grass-field, bird-bone, ship-prow, river-bank and to swell
are one root ?
Arnaud
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> and numerous isoglosses with eastern IE languages ?

>A centrally located language?
>Richard
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Where do you want to put the center of PIE ?

Arnaud
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