Re: [tied] Fun?! (correction [Re: Weeping])

From: alex
Message: 29771
Date: 2004-01-18

m_iacomi wrote:
>> -the properly developments of the IE roots of Dacian/Thracian/
>> Illyrian are "lost" in the known forms of Latin, Slavic, Greek?
>
> ... which is the least likely one, but that the transformations
> occured in substratal languages were important, either phonetically
> or semantically (usual result of language evolution): the simple
> fact we practically ignore morphology of these ancient languages
> does not allow us to be such at ease with tracing back to PIE.
>
>> By myself I cannot find a satisfying answer here.
>
> Piotr explained you some days ago why is that.
>
> Marius Iacomi


The conclusion should be as follow:
- we have no posiblity to find out how these words could look like in
the ancient Balkan Languages( the pretty clear picture about these words
is in fact very diffuse), thus let us forget even the posiblity of
thinking at it. We are best serviced with the 3 IE languages (Latin,
Greek, Slavic), trough these 3 languages we can explain most of what we
need in Balkan, thus there is no need for searching anymore about this.
The Alb-Rom common words have a separate status and they are the
"colour" there in a language, thus, it is OK they exist.

A... did I forgot anything? A stimulus for me maybe: stop searching
about, you will never find out what is dead and burried.

Alex