Re: [tied] Re: Laryngeals in IE

While writing my thesis, I had the dubious pleasure of reading quite a
lot of Möller's work on the supposed connections of IE and Semitic.

My impression of him was the he was, shall we say, somewhat eccentric. I
wouldn't like to use unscientific words like "bonkers" in polite
company, so I won't :~)


Daniel



Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 08:51:24 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >Yes, but <Xarri> is the self-designaton of the Indo-Iranians and is
> >therefore a loanword in the Assyrian text. So my money I still on
> >Möller to be the first to recognize a laryngeal in a written
> >representation of an IE gloss.
>
> But Assyrian "Harri" is nowadays more correctly read as
> Hurri, so Möller's idea that it was connected with something
> IE was, as it turns out, wrong.
>
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