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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> >Furthermore, so far most Latin roots with <ca-> I've checked have

had

> >rots in other languages (mostly Semitic) so similar that either
> >Møller or Bomhard or both have preoposed cognacy.
>
> This does not make them loan words! Any more than French chanter

is a loan

> from Italian cantare. They are inherited in both PIE and Semitic

(or

> whatever). Bomhard is setting out to show how PIE and certain

other

> language groups share a common origin. If he is right in

connecting these

> words, then they are inherited words within PIE, and also in

whatever other

> language group they are found in. Bomhard's whole thesis collapses

if all

> these words are loans, and he tries deliberately to exclude loans

so as not

> to skew the evidence.
>

Are you asking me not to rock the boat? I don't have any particular
interest in collapsing Bonhard's thesis, and I don't think I could if
I would. There will be plenty roots left for Nostratic after I pick
out some as loan words.

Torsten