Re: [tied] Re: Indo-Iranian

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:19:20 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>It is speculative all the prothetic forms here. You simply don't want to
>see the PIE *ali-us. OK. Let us say I have nothing against your
>arguments . Just one question:
>- which are the factors which argue for not being from PIE *ali-us ? For
>you as linguists , which are these factors?

1. There is no PIE *ali-us

2. Assuming you mean *alios "other", it is not a demonstrative.

3. Latin alius "other" was replaced in Vulgar Latin by alter (> outro,
otro, altre, autre, alt).

4. alius would have given *ai in Romanian, not ãst, cel, acest, acel or ãl.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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