Re: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

This can well be a loan from early Indo-Iranian or pre-IIr (*ec'wa- or *ac'wa-, still with an affricate > Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe *cH&, as well as Proto-Dagestanian *Wci).

What do you base your reconstruction of Proto-AbAd "5" on?

Piotr

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> I also think that IndoT was being affected by a language I call
> "Abadha" which would be the ancestor to AbkhazAdyghe (aka NorthWest
> Caucasian) and Hattic. There's one word I find interesting in
> IE: *ekwo- "horse". If the word is old, it would be *kw in
> Old IE. I notice that AA seems to have *c^W as the word for
> horse. I propose that it was originally *k^w in Abadha and that
> palatal *k^ became AA *c^.