Re: [tied] *H1wes-

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 7948
Date: 2001-07-18

Piotr:
>I was just going to use this argument. No matter if PU *weti (R�dei's
>reconstruction) is a very early loan or an "Indo-Uralic" word, it
>seems to rule out *h1-

Yes, but then I gots to thinkin'. If I were my own worst enemy, I might
mention to myself that Uralic could have lost all laryngeals and then
I'd employ the common excuse: "It's there, but you just can't see it".
Then again, "lack of proof" isn't a replacement for "proof", is it.

- gLeN


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