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

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

> >>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 .....")
>

You have misunderstood what it is I claim, which is: these roots are
_possibly_ loans. Thus, "I win", translation "it might be a
loan"; "you win", translation "it is not a loan" (unless M or B
overlooked it, of course).

Torsten