Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19007
Date: 2003-02-22

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Subject: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"


> I am citing from SS Misra (p. 19):
>
> The form FU *porc'as for and beside *p;ors'as, 'piglet' should be
> derived from *pars'as rather than parc'as Indo-Iranian form normally
> reconstructed as such.

Why? And if *pars'as is "Rigvedic", why is the word absent from the Rigveda? ;-)

Piotr