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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:
> Does the preservation of word *Re:g^-s in Celtic, Italic and Indic
demonstrate any particular social meaning or it's just aleatory? May
represent a conservation of IE king in these people? There was
another languages preserving *re:g^-s ? I know there is possibly
Thracian Rhe:sos (<*Re:z-os).
>
The standard background remark on that observation is that Celtic and
Indic are at opposite ends of the geographical range of IE. But
according to Karl Horst Schmitt (forgot the title of the article)
Celtic shows sign of having been in contact with the Eastern branches
of IE at an early stage. The nearest point of contact (between Celtic
and Indic) would have been north of the Black Sea. And not wanting to
upset people I abstain here from making any reference to
Cimmerians/Cimbri/Cymru.
But perhaps we should look beyond IE.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hrg.html
I haven't yet added the Finnish and Hungarian r-k- "build, construct"
roots.
Torsten