From: tgpedersen
Message: 26744
Date: 2003-10-31
> At 4:44:27 AM on Friday, October 31, 2003, Marco Moretti wrote:True. Let's use statistics instead: how come _none_ of them match up?
>
> > <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> >> I have no particular interest in Samsø; the name is
> >> etymologically obscure to me for reasons that have
> >> nothing to do with its IE or non-IE character (I only
> >> know its modern form, which is too short and too
> >> uncharacteristic to be of much use). It doesn't look
> >> non-Germanic at all, but I have already explaind my
> >> reasons for not speculating about it. I fail to see why
> >> it should be CLEARLY non-IE.
>
> > It is clearly non-IE as many other toponyms for this
> > simple reason: It cannot be found any matchup with an IE
> > root that works.
>
> Faulty logic: you assume a complete knowledge of IE roots.
>