Re: pre-Nostratic *male[:]k?xa, 'milk (vb.)'

> Because the correspondence is a consequence of history, rather than a
> dynamic process of conversion between the two languages. There
> actually is a similar process for converting between Low German and
> High German - but this too has its root in the phonetic history of

the

> dialects.
>

I used to have NDR (Germany III) on cable. Once a month they had
plattdeutsch evening shows. I got the impression that many of the
invited guests, rather than speaking a language they used in everyday
life, were doing an on-the-fly backward Grimm shift of sentences they
had thought in High German.


Torsten