--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> But yes, you did, in your brief response to Miguel's comment about
homophones in Bomhard's Nostratic reconstruction. I understand it was
just a casual remark.
>
You're right. That was wrong. What I meant was:
There are many "minimally different" sets of cognates that can't be,
should I say, "resolved" by a single presumed IE root (the famous
*dn-n-/*d-n- example?). If such a root had been borrowed from a third
(non AA) source at one time into one branch of IE, at another time
into another, we would have exactly that situation (my
campaign/champagne example). For that to happen, that third source
would have to have other routes. Given the geographic dispersion (by
land) of the IE speakers, those alternative routes might have been
water-borne.
However the thread was getting long, and I entered it at the wrong
place. So.
BTW, I found PAA *don- "strong" in Orël & Stolbova. The plot thickens.
Torsten