Re: PIE word for "people"

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

> In reconstructing pre-PIE, I have come to believe that there were

two /r/

> phonemes, only one of which produces the [r]/[l] variations we see

in Old

> Indian (Gosh, I wish there were a better word!).

> The variety of /r/ that produces this variation, shows up in PIE as [l].

*reudh 'red' seems to give some Sanskrit words in l-, e.g. _loha_
'red', 'of copper', '(of) iron', 'blood'.

Richard.