Re: Substrates in Reconstructed-PIE itself??

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> > Eneolithic? Is that a hybrid for Chalcolithic? I gather it is
> > "a(h)eneus" lying behind. Is there any difference between the

terms?

>
> Both terms refer to the same "Copper-Stone Age" (intermediate

between

> Neolithic and Bronze). <aëneus> (ahe:neus) is quadrisyllabic in

Latin,

> so <Aeneolithic> is more correct (though still a Latino-Greek

hybrid),

> and Eneolithic (the more frequent variant in this Age of Classical
> Decline) owes its existemce to false analogy (<encyclop(a)edia>

etc.).

>

Thanks. What I suspected. But no hybrids for me! I will use
Chalcolithic and recommend to the rest of the world to do the same.

Lars