Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

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From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:22 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
>
> > For example, if I think Egyptian d3, 'tremble', is related to PIE
> > *der-,
>
> I'm curious why you cite Egyptian so much. Shouldn't you be citing
> Afrasian forms?

***
Patrick:

Egyptian forms are facts.

The Afrasian reconstructions that have been done have not had wide
acceptance; in fact, some of them are downright amateurish. I do not trust
them, and cannot use them.

In other contexts, I have also used Arabic but Egyptian is easiest, and I
know it better than Arabic.