Re: Hercynian (again)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 68649
Date: 2012-02-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

> As I said before, it's extremely unlikle, if not possibiliy, that ALL
> the reconstructed "PIE" roots could belong to a single protolanguage.

Quantify 'ALL'. For example, it is seriously suggested that a lot of the roots in Pokorny are just coincidences or later or parallel loans. If one aims to list all PIE roots, one will list a lot of non-existent roots.

Richard.