Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60357
Date: 2008-09-26

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From: "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian
and Indo-European



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <> I was expecting
this chain.
> I agree with "*agsla: > *a(k)sla: > a:la. The changes here are
regular."
>
> It's the first step that I disagree with.
>
> To start with, I think such a thing like -tl- is impossible in PIE.
> This cluster becomes -tr-.

Then what of Germanic words like OE (Anglian) <ne:þl> "needle",
<boþl> "dwelling", and Lithuanian words like <arklas> "plough"? Don't
these go back to PIE *-tl-?

AJ
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I have needle from OE naedle
and booth seems to be a Danish loan-word.
but I'll let the better-informed leave their opinions.

Arnaud

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