Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

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From: david_russell_watson

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:26 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@......>
wrote:
>
> If I ever thought I had presented a rationale in a similar form
> to 'getting worry over stone in shoe under one's skin', I assure
> you,  would stop writing, and devote myself to other pursuits.

The following really don't seem much better, not that I'm asking
you to stop writing or anything:

>   3) *réudh-s-, 'pair of lips-body', 'reddish'  (-*dh is a
> formant of bodily parts)   
>
>   4) *réu-s-, 'pair of lips', 'pink'
>
>   5) *é:li-s-, 'smoke-come apart (release)-like', 'orangish'
>
>   6) *á:li-s-, 'water-come apart (release)-like', 'whitish'
>
>   7) *bhéro-s-, 'trunk-color', 'brownish'

They seem very convoluted and contrived to me.  

David 


David.

 

They seem pretty direct and straightforward to me: all built on items in the daily environment.

 

 

Patrick