[tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 10:24:50 AM on Wednesday, September 17, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> > <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> If only the Celts had had it. Alas, the *h2ans- root
> >> doesn't seem to be attested in Celtic.
>
> > Ha! It has been attested on this website, which presumably
> > has been made by two bona fide Celts (and who am to
> > argue):

Well, Piotr for one would distrust native intuition as a matter of
principle :)

> > http://members.aol.com/IrishWord/protocelt.htm
>
> Bona fide nutters, I'm afraid. (What *do* they think
> 'sandhi' actually means?)

I'm not convinced they don't understand it. However, they did miss
the fact that Biblical Hebrew was about to grammaticalise word-
initial lenition. (Modern Hebrew doesn't have word-initial
lenition.)

Richard.