Re: [tied] The Googoo Hypothesis must be squashed

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:04:54 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>*ma:te:r may contain an original nursery-word as the root, but it's embedded in a nice morphological setting. It's the *-te:r part that proves its antiquity, not *ma:- alone.

Given that we have *ph2te:r "father", *mah2te:r "mother", *bhrah2te:r
"brother", I wonder if the ending wasn't actually *-h2ter- (and the
roots **pa, **ma and something to do with *bher-).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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