[tied] [pieml] Re: IE: likely home, India

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> Torsten:
> >Not that I would disagree, but what happens if we assume with Cuny
> >and Glen Gordon that what is traditionally reconstructed as PIE <o>
> >and <e> was actually <a> and <&>? We'd then have for Indo-Iranian
> ><&> -> <a> and for Greek etc <a> -> <o> and <&> -> <e>. Suddenly II
> >looks closer to PIE than Greek etc.
>
> That's not nice. You're now twisting my nice little theories :(

When I say

> that *e derives from earlier *& and *o from *a, I distinctly am

talking

> about a _Pre-IE_ stage, not IE itself. IE most certainly seems to

have

> had *e and *o and I personally don't question it since Germanic,

Anatolian

> and Greek all appear to reflect *e (and not schwa).
>
> - love gLeN

Call it karma. I thought it was amusing that you should agree with
the avid Möller-fan Cuny.

Torsten