Re: [tied] Re: Rex-Raj-Rix

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 22109
Date: 2003-05-21

----- Original Message -----
From: João Simões Lopes Filho
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Rex-Raj-Rix


> But a plausible contact of Celts to Indo-Iranians might be to Scythians?
Scythian preserved the *re:g^-s root? (*ra:z-)

Whether it did or not, neither *ra:z- nor any other Satem reflex of
*(h1)re:g^- can account for Celtic ri:g-, which represents the regular
development of the PIE form (the same holds for Lat. re:g-).

Piotr