Re: Odp: Voting Results: The relationship of IE to other language

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1459
Date: 2000-02-10

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:50 AM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Voting Results: The relationship of IE to other language families

>Here are the results of the vote:
>
>1. coincidence			1

Obviously this person above needs to splash cold water on his face and 
re-read his references.
Good ol' Glen, offhand as usual. It was my vote, actually. Since multiple votes were NOT disallowed, I exercised my right to vote for three options:
 
  • 1. Coincidence: I'm sure it accounts for quite a few similarities between U and IE.
  • 3. Genetic relationship: I regard it as very likely for this particular pair of families, mostly because of the shared morphological patterns of the kind you cite in your posting.
  • 5. Loanwords from IE into Uralic: I think they account for MOST of the observed similarities, though not for ALL of them.
 
Piotr