Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 27531
Date: 2003-11-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
> >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.

I believe Torsten was referring to Anatolian's lack of a feminine.

Richard.