Re: [tied] FYD (For your disinformation)

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 7051
Date: 2001-04-10

On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:08:11 , "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>A "universal", "empty" case is pseudolinguistic trash.

I suppose you have a better explanation for the -k in Hittite u-k,
ammu-k, etc.

>Your views on IE as well as Semitic are clearly demented. IE *-k^s comes
>from the consonant cluster in the Semitic word for six, possibly *-dT- or
>*-tT-. At any rate, it could never EVER be reconstructed as **-s^s^- when
>Arabic's reflex is /sitta/ and not */sissa/. We _must_ reconstruct a medial
>*T (IPA "thorn").

I was not trying to reconstruct Proto-Semitic (*s-d-c^). The Akkadian
(East Semitic) form is <s^es^s^et-> ~ <s^is^s^et>.


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