Odp: Number of Laryngeals and Nostratic Roots

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 223
Date: 1999-11-11

 
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From: Simona Klemencic
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:37 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Number of Laryngeals and Nostratic Roots

I think I should add this to what I wrote earlier:
[...] In the second case, the required root could have an s, z, h or r sound in a 
convenient place. Gosh, we could organize a competition in finding as many 
fitting »Nostratic« roots as possible. If we're not too difficult to please 
(and those ho speak in favour of  the Proto-language don't seem to be), a 
»fishing expedition« (Don Ringe's expression) in just any dictionary should 
result in abounding Nostratic or Proto-language material.
You bet they do just that, Simona.
Piotr