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

> > In any case, Moeller and Bomhard are attempting show a genetic
> connection,
> > they attempt to identify roots that are inherited within PIE.

They

> are not
> > making a list of loan words!
>
> So? To me they are just a convenient collection of look-alikes. I

am

> not bound in honor to use their collection after their intended
> purpose.
>
> > Bomhard at least specifically tries to exclude loans.

For some reason Bomhard doesn't tell us what his procedure was for
excluding loans. One gets the suspicion that he did nothing more
complicated than leave out those roots that were "known" at the time
to come from somewhere else.

Check

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/dlnr.html

Obviously with so many different, but near-homophonous and near-
synonymous reconstructed roots Bomhard hasn't shown single origin for
these collections of words. On the contrary, this is the type of
picture you get when you try to find a proto-root for what is
actually one root loaned several times over from somewhere else.

Torsten