Re: [tied] IE genitive

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 21621
Date: 2003-05-09

Dan:
>Did Glen's Steppe speakers encounter the wolf only when they left
>their home for the deep forest? I don't know, but Hermann Hesse must
>have had something in mind when he wrote "Steppenwolf."

Obviously they would have simply had another word for "wolf" before *wlkWos
was in
fashion. Yet who knows, perhaps the word is in part affected by taboo
reformulation.


- gLeN

_________________________________________________________________
Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail