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

> Peter:
> > 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).

Glen:

> Of all the hypotheses
> available, this is the unlikeliest.

Yes, clearly. I should have said "Bomhard and others who advance this
theory are attempting to show that they are inherited in both PIE and
whatever other language they happen to claim." But I couldn't be bothered
writing so many words. Sorry I confused you.

> > Bomhard tries deliberately to exclude loans so as
> > not to skew the evidence.
> Erh. That's false.

Page 5 "comparison must strive .. to separate borrowings from native
elements"
Page 10 "Once a large amount of lexical material has been gathered, it must
be carefully analyzed to try to separate what is ancient from what is .. a
borrowing."

>He includes *septm

Obviously he shouldn't have.

Peter