Re: [tied] Re: An example

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From: Richard Wordingham

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:31 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: An example

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>   From: Miguel Carrasquer<mailto:mcv@...>
>   The root is *h2melg^- (Grk. amelgo:, Ir. bligim,
>   Lith. melz^u, CS/OR mUlzu, Lat. mulgeo).  Slavic shouldn't
>   have k (it has because *melko is a borrowing from Germanic).
>   I see no reason to connect *h2melg^- with *glakt-.
>   Patrick:

>   But I ... see no reason to reconstruct *h2melg^- for *me[:]lg^-.

Greek _amelgo:_.

Richard.

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Patrick:

I do not see Greek _amelgo:_ as a reason for reconstructing *H2me[:]lg^-.

 

Strictly a Greek phenomenon.

 

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