Re: Anser [was: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]]

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

> >
> > There seems to be an accordance between Italicist that rural
> > vocabulary in Latin is taken from dialects and shows unexpected
> > development.
>
> More accurately: Italicists are in accordance that rural vocabulary
> in Latin shows unexpected development and is therefore taken from
> Italic dialects. Logically they might leave out 'Italic', but then
> they wouldn't be Italicists, of course.

Certainly. After all, Latin started out as one tiny little dialect
surrounded by many others. It's no surprise, then, that it would
borrow from other nearby dialects.

- Rob