Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

At 5:00:00 PM on Sunday, January 20, 2013, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" wrote:

>>> NEC *XHVr[ts´]V 'marten; otter'
>>> Altaic *karsi 'fox, marten'

>>> This evidence suggests this word has a palatal(ized)
>>> affricate, variously rendered into t,kt,ks,s in individual
>>> IE languages. There's no "thorny cluster" here.

>> A perfect match with the standard PIE reconstruction is
>> obviously to be preferred to an asserted but unsupported
>> genetic relationship with vaguely similar non-PIE words with
>> vaguely similar meanings. Your 'evidence' is moonshine.

> Unfortunately, this word isn't "PIE" (i.e. Kurganic) at all,

The evidence says otherwise. That's the actual evidence, of
course, not your pseudo-scientific maunderings.

> hence the "bizarre" sound correspondences. This is my
> point.

Pointless, as usual.