Re: [tied] Re: Sanskrit nr./nara (Was: A New language tree)

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From: mkelkar2003

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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:48 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: Sanskrit nr./nara (Was: A New language tree)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@......> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@......> wrote:
>
> > He will do that when the IEL consider the full declension of nru:
> >
> > "IE linguists comment profusely on nara but hardly even bother to
> > consider the full declension of nr. Yet here we have a paradonxical
> > situation. If nara is older than nr (or nr is an Indoaryan innovation,
> > or whatever else, but definitely, but, in any case, not earlier than
> > nara), we should find in RV more compounds with nara-as first member
> > than compounds with nr (Kazanas, 2004),"
> >
> > <http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/SPIE.pdf>
>
> What is the problem?  The base form of the PIE word is *h2ner, zero
> grade *h2nr.  In Sanskrit this whould give vr.ddhi _na:_, gu.na _nar_,
> zero grade nr..
>
*h2ner etc are not real words. They are laryngeals reconstructed to
sustain the mirage of language families. They are not attested in any
real language.

M. Kelkar

 

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Patrick writes:

 

Frankly, Mr. Kelkar, if you do not know that 'laryngeals' are overtly manifested in Hittite, and indirectly manifested in all other IE language families, your speculations in this discussion are futile and uninformed. There are not so many firm and fast facts in these matters but 'laryngeals' is one such fact.

 

Patrick

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