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

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

> >many IE-Semitic
> > correspondences are treated like valid Nostratic
> > comparanda, ....more often than not, they are evidence of
> > loans rather than inherited words.
>
> You're probably right. But there are non-loanable points of

similarity

> which interest me (or would interest me if PIE did not claim any

time I have

> for this stuff).
> Original two-consonant roots, extended to three consonants.

Møller does list the "common IE-Semitic determinants", ie. third
consonants, but does not attempt to characterise them semantically;
in all likelihood because they were not borrowed as triconsonantal
roots.

> Vowels do not carry significant lexical information; consonants

do.

Vennemann thinks the tendency in Germanic to systematize PIE ablaut,
especially the division of ablauting verbs into classes, is a
subtrate effect from AfroAsiatic 'Atlantic'.
(As for the regular verbs: Basque is fond of constructing verbs with
<egin> "do", as is Dutch (in the old Nordwestblock) with "doen", not
to mention English, cf that the preterite of PGmc regular verbs might
be constructed with PIE *dhe-).

Torsten