Re: [tied] PIE *h3 and PPIE **n

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:34:07 , "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

[Not much actual content to respond to.]

>You claim that *nem-, *em- and *yem- are the same verb in contrary to mainstream
>IE opinion when they don't even have the same meaning let alone phonetics.

Whatever "mainstream IE opinion" means, the semantic and phonological
link between these three roots is something that is invariably pointed
out by all serious works I have seen. Opinions differ on how to
explain it. Baltic has all three forms: Latv. jemt, n'emt, nemt;
Lith. imti "to take".

>Latin proves nothing. Newsflash: Latin
>-g- doesn't correspond to Sanskrit -k for starters

Sigh. One word: sandhi.

>And you will see no IE **suius anywhere in competent literature

Apparently, you don't know much about the "competent literature". The
PIE forms are *su(:)nus [with short /u/ in Gmc. *sunus] and *su(:)ius.
[the /u/ is short in Grk. huiús, and was replaced by /o/ in
Tocharian].


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