--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> "Attestation" is "documented use", not a conjecture about something
that may or may not have happened. We know a Germanic reflex of
*xarvaD- as a mountain name, so *that* is attested. We lack such
attestation in Slavic.
Yes, I suppose you're right. What we need is a more scientific
approach to linguistics, in which all conjectures about something
that may or may not have happened are banned.
Torsten