Steve,
Just for the record: Greek *<bibros>
or *<bebros> 'beaver, chewer, whatever' is not attested directly or
indirectly, right? There is no earthly reason to posit it and to credit the
Greeks with inventing what everybody else but Steve Long sees fit to
reconstruct as PIE *bHebHrus (however we explain it). Since you don't provide
any constructive arguments in favour of the Greek origin of the word, you
make me fight shadows, and I don't care for that. I simply have no time or
patience to discuss a ghost form ad infinitum, not to mention the multiply
cloned red herrings ("special explanations" for each branch that has the word)
that result from this exchange. Does anyone else feel like discussing it? I'm
definitely not going to reply to this thread in any way.
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:45 AM
Subject: [tied] What the Beaver Teaches Us about
Mycenaean
> First, just for the record, *gWigWro:sko: -- in that
form -- is unattested
ever. Am I right?