Re: [tied] Qualitative ablaut and prefixing

Jens to Miguel:

>Thanks for the support, weak and theoretical as it may be. By way if
>parallel, I may add that Eskimo, >perhaps the record-holder in terms of
>suffixes, has
>innumerable suffixes and *one* prefix. The prefix is
>ta- changing pronouns and pronominal adverbs into
>anaphorica, [...]

Call me daft but a little birdie tells me that
Eskimo too has little evidence of significant
prefixing in the past. This is typical of Boreal
and Altaic languages in general. I don't see Indo-
Tyrrhenian languages being any different since they
are all from the same stock in the end.

>[...] like Glen I hated
>the idea of a consonantal origin of some of the o's,
>but the facts have proved so stubborn as to leave no
>other way.

This is of course nonsense. There are many more
credible solutions but certainly none of them are the
outlandish panaceas that Jens is apparently looking
for. There is no way, in anyone's imagination, that
**R- is the ONLY solution for *o-grade here. Pure
poppycock.


- gLeN


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