Re: [TIED] Uralic-Etruscan links?

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From: Glen Gordon

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 2:36 PM

Subject: Re: [TIED] Uralic-Etruscan links?

>It is related to Polish/OCSl to, Skt. tat, Greek to, English that. In
> >Etruscan you could have a parallel formation (i-ta), in which case the
> >correspondence would boil down to ta : to, involving the most common
> >consonant on this planet.

 

Glen wrote:

We can then say that about the IE correspondances and throw them all away :P

Perhaps I'd throw them all away if *to stood alone and if there weren't scores of independent correspondences involving PIE *t. The demonstrative pronoun takes a free ride on more secure equations. Plus, it's part of a larger pronoun system involving genders, numbers and cases, and there are good correspondences involving the whole ststem or a large part of it. This additional evidence makes up for the weakness of *to.

 

Piotr