Re: [tied] Re: Other IE language with /w/

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 41390
Date: 2005-10-13



"Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

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  Interesting, considering that the Old Iranian word for "water" was a
reflex of a different I.-E. root -- Pokorny's a:>p-2.
  Anyone have another source to make sure the lady wasn't messing with
more than Andrew's hair?

-- Let me say that I suspected this almost immediately, although I didn't say so in my message.  What are the chances that it would sound exactly the same as the English word?  But I had to suppress my suspicions because I have been diagnosed as a schizophrenic and I have had much paranoia in my life (and "hearing voices", as well as what seem like supernatural phenomena) and many strange, weird happenings  have occurred in my life (which lead me to wonder things like whether she was actually a secret agent who monitors my communications with this Yahoo group, and deliberately deceived me because she knew what I have talked about in this group), which unfortunately are unbelievable to other people and which therefore I have found I cannot really talk freely about - but I have used this occasion as an excuse to confess this to you and the others.

-- Andrew