Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

> >> > 3) Until about 1500 BCE, all IE speakers could be
> >> > reached by ship in the Mediterranean.
>
> Strange, then, that PIE apparently lacks a word for "sea". Some

take this

> as evidence that the homeland must have been inland.
>

True.
For more on *mari, which might have been a substrate word etc

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/3276

On the other hand *w-g*h-
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/wgH.html
*w-dh-
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/wdH.html
*w-d-
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/wd.html
with variant *w-g- (Gr. hugro-)

which have suspiciously similar roots in Finno-Ugric,

and
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Op.html
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html

seems to indicate they knew about fluvial transport. That kind of
transport links are interrupted only by deserts and mountain ranges.


Torsten