[tied] Re: Satem shift

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> I'd appreciate concrete examples (rather than multiply

interpretable

> consonantal skeletons). The illusion will dissolve if you look at
> full reconstructions or real words in real languages. If your *k-l-

:

> *s-l- is supposed to mean that *kailo- is related to *solwo-, I can
> only reply that you can safely forget this particular

correspondence

> for reasons too obvious to merit discussion.
>
> Piotr
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> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
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> > But since everyone knows they haven't, if a linguist finds
> > an alternating -k-/-s- they are assigned to different roots.

Which

> > means that if I find roots differing by -k-/-s- in the

etymological

> > dictionaries I get suspicious.
> > So how about
> > *k-l- "go, impel" / *s-(l/r)- "go, impel" (and *kW-l- ?)
> > *k-l- "whole, sound" / *s-l- "whole, sound"
> > ?
> >
> > Torsten

You're right, should be

> > *kW-l- "whole, sound" / *s-l- "whole, sound"

which is not very convincing, unless I can drag in /kW/ etc into a
paradigm with /k/

The problem is I've taken these particular forms from Møller, who
backs them up with AfroAsiatic examples, which obviously won't
convince you.

Torsten