Re[2]: [tied] The Arbitrary and capricious nature of PIE "reconstru

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 36995
Date: 2005-04-08

At 21:59:32 on Thursday, 7 April 2005, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> So the Albanians got the ending right but lost the
> beginning s. Russian roulette?

If it were random, it would obviously be *Albanian*
roulette. But in fact Miguel already pointed out that
*sn- > s- is regular in Albanian, so no roulette is
involved.

Brian

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