Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 27514
Date: 2003-11-24

>That's right. Before "the other IE" was influenced by Semitic.

Incorrect. Hittite /s^ipta-/.


>quote (by you):
>Well, there is a clear enough link between the IE feminine in *-ax
>and the collective, imho, just like it coincidently seems to be in Semitic
>(areal influence?)
>
>Obviously that area does not include Anatolia.

Really? I think it did: Tyrrhenian. It looks to me that this group hints
at this same feature found in IE and Semitic. Tyrrhenian would have
been spoken in Greece and Western Anatolia for quite some time.
Semitic and Anatolian IE loans appear in this grouping as well, as we
find in Etruscan.


= gLeN

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