From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 27531
Date: 2003-11-24
> >Well, there is a clear enough link between the IE feminine in *-axSemitic
> >and the collective, imho, just like it coincidently seems to be in
> >(areal influence?)hints
> >
> >Obviously that area does not include Anatolia.
>
> Really? I think it did: Tyrrhenian. It looks to me that this group
> at this same feature found in IE and Semitic. Tyrrhenian would havewe
> been spoken in Greece and Western Anatolia for quite some time.
> Semitic and Anatolian IE loans appear in this grouping as well, as
> find in Etruscan.I believe Torsten was referring to Anatolian's lack of a feminine.