Re: [tied] Chinese dairy again

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> PTB *su:r/*swa:r "sour/be acid"
> PTB *s-kyu:r/*s-kywa:r "sour/be acid"
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> cf. Russian syr "cheese". It's a Northwestern IE word: Balto-

Slavic

> and Germanic.
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> 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.
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> Torsten
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> Patrick:
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> More "musical" phones!
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In this case they were mobile phones.


Torsten