Re: [tied] Re: PIE word for "people"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: [tied] 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.

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Patrick:

An astute choice. Of course, one does have róhita- also. The only answer I
can suggest is that a minority dialect changed *r to <l>, and this form
entered the language is a specialized sense.

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