Re: [tied] PIE dorsals

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From: João Simões Lopes Filho

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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:43 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] PIE dorsals

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE dorsals


> On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 03:15:32 , "Glen Gordon"
> <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
> >Miguel:
> >>Looking further towards the chapter on Anatolian in Ramat & Ramat (by
> >>Silvia Luraghi), I find HLuw. zurni- "horn";  HLuw azu(wa)- "horse"
> >>(Lyc. esbe), Lyc. sñta "100 (1000?)", none of them explicable by the
> >>effect of neighbouring front vowels (and Luraghi further adds that *k
> >>before *i > zero in Luwian/Lycian, without examples).
> >
> >Aren't these just examples of a later palatalisation again? Like say,
> >*k^ern- (> *zern- ?), *ek^wos (> *ezwa- ?), and *k^emtom (> *zenta ?)
>

Are these examples can be  loanwords from Indo-Iranian Mittani ?