Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:01:11 +0000, elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote:

>It takes no amount of force to derive the Armenian plural marker -k'
>from a plain *s,

Nonsense. Plain *-s gives Armenian zero (occasionally *-r).

>nor the Slavic 2sg and loc.pl. -x- from plain *-s-,

It's the -u that reveals the former labialization. Cf. the loc.sg. of
u-stems, where -i > -u after /w/ (and then *-owu > *-o:u).

>nor the initial of 'six' from *sw-/s-.

Is that *sw- or *s- or neither?


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