From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 32611
Date: 2004-05-14
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:59 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: An odd etymology
> All under the assumption that the word is a bona fide IE word and has
made the trip all the way from PIE in all branches. Note Basque
<aizkora>. If it's a loan word, these inconsistencies suddenly look
acceptable.
Once you start permuting segments at will, anything can be made to look like
almost anything else. Basque <aizkora> is SIMILAR to many other things, e.g.
to Polish siekiera < *sekyra and Latin secu:ris (s-k-r), both meaning 'axe'.
How do you decide which (if any) of two or more competing but mutually
exclusive similarity-based proposals is preferable?
Piotr