Re: [tied] West bird

From: Exu Yangi
Message: 43234
Date: 2006-02-04

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>
> > See
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/16097
> >
> > (by Guillaume Jacques, an Old Chinese and Sino-Tibetan scholar)
> >
>Maybe Pulleyblank is Older?
>
> >
> > "Le mot pour "chien" a effectivement �t� propos� comme un des
> > Wanderw�rter qui se retrouvent en IE et en chinois, mais je n'y
>crois
> > pas du point de vue phon�tique : nous avons des raisons tr�s
>fortes
> > (bas�es sur les rimes dans les bronzes chinois) pour reconstruire
>ce mot
> > en particulier *kwir avec un -r.
>

if one wanted to cast a bit of doubt on the argument, one could look only as
far as Hittite to see final -n changing to final -r. My question would be:
Can this be a regualr change in the corpus of OC as well, or perhaps
betraying a way to date a borrowing?

Hey ... I just ask the questions ... put down that flamethrower ...

Exu