The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:15:22 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>

wrote:

> >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:24:31 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
> >wrote:
> >> >*kaiko- "blind", *kailo- "whole", *kal(no) "hard (skin)", *kamp-
> > "bend", *kan-
> >> >"sing", *kand- "white", *kantHo- "edge", *kap- "take",
> >*kapro "male animal",
> >> >*kar- "chide", *kar&- "praise", *kars- "scratch", *kat- "plait,
> >chain",
> >> >*kaul- "hollow".
> >> >
> >> >But they might be loaned by western IE from an IE language
> >standing
> >> >at an earlier stage (where the ablaut vowel had stayed a/ä (>

a),

> >eg.
> >> >Krahe's Old European.
> >>
> >> Sanskrit is not western IE.
> >>
> >
> >Please elucidate.
>
> Skt. ke:kara, kampate:, kapat.i:, kapr.th-, carkarti.
>

Examples of plain *k in Sanskrit, I surmise. There are two ways open
for me here:


1) to claim that these were not loans from Old European, but a third
language, accessible from both Old European and Sanskrit, eg at its
earliest (or at least nearest) site at the Maeotic Sea. At least
*kand- has a correspondent in Semitic, according to Møller, and could
therefore originate in the early NE Caucasian language John told us
about.

2) to point out that according to Krahe, Old European stretches all
the way to the Caucasus, well within range of Sanskrit.

Torsten