Re: [tied] Chinese dairy again

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 43774
Date: 2006-03-11

 
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From: tgpedersen
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 4:47 AM
Subject: [tied] Chinese dairy again


PTB *su:r/*swa:r "sour/be acid"
PTB *s-kyu:r/*s-kywa:r "sour/be acid"

cf. Russian syr "cheese". It's a Northwestern IE word: Balto-Slavic
and Germanic.

The *ky-/*s- alternation is unusual in Proto-Tibetan. Pulleyblank, for
other reasons, proposes an proto-PIE rule *kI -> *s in his attempt to
set up a Proto-PTB-IE language.


Torsten


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