Re: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

From: P&G
Message: 28542
Date: 2003-12-16

>you should demonstrate that there are some
> Semitic loans among the roots showing the *s mobile
>I took all the PIE roots with s-mobile in ...
>and tried to match them ...with the common IE-Semitic roots in
>Hermann Møller Indoeuropæisk-semitisk Sammenlignende Glossarium
>As you can see, the overwhelming majority of Southern's s-mobile
>roots have a match in Semitic.

Your "matches" seem to me to be rather vague and generalised, as do
Moeller's. If there were regular correspondences it would be more
convincing. But when k = k^ = X = g and you allow metathesis, I am not
surprised you find lots of "matches", so your discovery seems less
persuasive than you might be hoping.

Peter