On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:54:24 +0000, Richard Wordingham
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richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>I think Alex has arranged his words carefully here. Looking at the
>his annotations in
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/28166 , a lot of the
>words he has marked could have come from many different IE
>languages - there's nothing that marks them as Latin rather than,
>say, pre-Grimm Germanic (accepting the traditional model for now).
That's definitely not true of a large number of them (câne, sânge, tot, un,
frunzã, ou, coadã, dinte, limbã, genunchi, bea, s,ti, înota, zbura, zãcea,
zice, ...), which can only be Latin. Especially in combination with each
other!
A form like <tu>, in isolation, may look like it can come from almost any
PIE-derived language. But <tu> does not exist in isolation. It has beside
it a 1st person pronoun <eu> and a 3rd. person <el>, and a possessive
<tãu>, etc. It cannot possibly be anything but Latin.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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