[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> > --- 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.

But it leaves us with the problems that Egyptian d may not reflect the
Afrasian form (though according to Ehret's reconstruction Egyptian
seems to be pretty conservative) and the Egyptian word might not even
be of Afrasian stock.