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

Ah! I see what your argument is!
-Someone said: /k/ is weird - it must be only on loan words.
-Someone else said: it can't be, it has a phonetic effect in Latin.
-You say: that phonetic effect is itself only on loan words.

No wonder I got lost - it's not that I'm stupid. Or not just that I'm
stupid.

You then take my three examples (there may be lots more, but let's use those
three) and suggest that they were all originally loaned before they spread
through the IE languages. Here I get lost again. Because the loan must
have been early enough for the IE languages still to be in contact, we are
talking of a very early stage in the history of PIE. Any loan words
adopted at that start are part of later PIE. So I don't think you can say
plain /k/ was not part of PIE.

Peter