Re: Prehistoric Ethnogenic Processes

Marc Verhaegen wrote:

> >> 4) Greek & Germanic are in the centre of your IE homeland. Could this be
> due (only?) to the fact that these languages had the largest number of words
> used in your analysis?

I say, that the lokation of each of the 9 IE languages is determied by
the 8 other. Therefore mistakes in data of one language can be corrected
by the data of other languages.


Is this a "real" homeland, or were these IE languages

> only in close contact at that time?

The Old Germanic and Old Greek languages were formed in the next areas.
I mean that these areas were homelands of Germanic and Greeek. Do you
want to have my maps? I can send them to you.

>
> >> 5) Some of your word identifications are not very convincing (eg, Eng.
> jump – Yagn. jumb "to move",
>

Some mistakes in my etymology can be. It can concern to the word "jump".
What do you think about other my English-Iranian correspondences?

With best regards, Valentyn Stetsyuk.