How many velar series in P.I.E? (was Re: [tied] *kW- "?")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:18:44 +0000, tgpedersen
> > <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> There is evidence for *k^a-, although it is admittedly rare.
> > >
> > >
> > >Such as?
> > >
> >
> > *k^ad- "fall", *k^as- "hare, grey", *k^ank- "branch", k^at-
> > "fight".
> >
>
> Getting that fact into my "a's and plain k's are loaned" scheme is a
> brain-teaser. I think this will work:
>
> *k^a- is from loaned *c^a-.

Perhaps *k^ad comes from Dravidian *ked. It's reconstructed as lie dwn
but in some daughter languages it means to fall.