Re[2]: [tied] West bird

At 8:16:58 AM on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, tgpedersen
wrote:

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

[...]

>> and a shared loan from some essentially unidentifiable
>> eastern source, for want of tangible evidence, is not
>> something that can be profitably discussed.

> If tangible evidence is what you want, perhaps you're not
> in the right line of business? ;-)

[...]

>> This, however, can well be an analogical deformation of
>> older *wesp-ero- < *we-kWsp-ero- (cf. Skt. ks.ap-
>> 'night'), through which we can explain <west>, <vesper>
>> and <vec^er> at one time.

> That would be nice, but it constitues no proof.

If proof is what you want, ... . <g>

Brian