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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...> wrote:
> p. 6, 17, 18
>
> http://www.indoeuropean.nl/ied/pdf/pre-greek.pdf
I think you've misunderstood the term 'pre-Greek' as used in that
paper. It's being used to mean the language from which Greek dialects
have borrowed a lot of words. It does not refer to an ancestral form
of Greek (however varied the ancestral dialects be). The vacillations
discussed are no more significant for Greek than the vacillation
between 'a' and 'e' or 'o' and 'u' in English loans from Arabic.
I think it's a misuse of the prefix 'pre-', though not nearly as bad
as, for example, 'Proto-Bangani' to mean the language from which
Bangani derived its centum word forms.
Richard.