Re: Ermine

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> Whetex_lewx wrote:
> > As my knowledge reaches both germanic h and baltic
> > s^ came from proto-indo-european *kh.
>
> Say wha? Are you using a crappy Romanian-to-English
> program or something? That sentence makey no sense,
> bro.

It's not so far from the correct 'As 'far as my knowledge goes, both
germanic h and baltic s^ came from proto-indo-european *k^.

> There is no PIE voiceless aspirate like **kH. It was
> invented to wish away the typological problems
> presented by *k-*g-*gH.

In this case, it's far more likely to be a misremembered *k^.

Richard.