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

From: P&G
Message: 31095
Date: 2004-02-15

>>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,

>Are you asking me not to rock the boat?
>There will be plenty roots left for Nostratic after I pick
>out some as loan words.

No, I am answering your claim that if it is in Bomhard, it is a loan into
PIE. That is clearly, obviously, patently, and disturbingly wrong.
Bomhard maybe correct or incorrect. But you certainly can't use the
presence of roots in Moeller and Bomhard as "proof" that they are loans.
This is what you tried to do when you laid down that challenge: ("If it's in
Bomhard I win .....")

Peter