Re: Stacking up on standard works

From: Tavi
Message: 69057
Date: 2012-03-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>
> > Also some of De Vaan's etymologies, e.g. Latin vitrum
> > 'glass; woad' from IE *wed-ro- 'water-like' are rather
> > inventive, to say the least.
>
> It can't be all that inventive, since Sihler (223.5) accepts
> it. He also says that 'for the semantics there are a number
> of parallels'.
>
The problem is De Vaan's systematically tries to derive everything from
the reconstructed "PIE" using "regular" sound correspondences,
regardless of other considerations.

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