From: tgpedersen
Message: 43194
Date: 2006-02-01
>Evidently I am in the right line of business ... ;-)
> 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>
>