From: Octavià Alexandre
Message: 64118
Date: 2009-06-11
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>This is why I regard *sreneh2/4- 'hip' as more adequate to explain the Latin word. Futhermore, Basque has errain, errein- 'kidneys' (with protetic e- because Basque doesn't allow for rhotics at word-initial) from a lost IE language (Italoid aka IE-Ligurian).
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski gpiotr@ wrote:
>
> > Anttila's etymology requires one metathesis of a rather common type
> > (sonorants swapping places) and _no_ semantic shift whatsoever, so why
> > should it be considered inferior?
> >
>
> Yes, but such metathesises are pure speculations...
>
> You cannot demonstrate them (either pro or con) so there is no value by supposing them
>