[tied] Re: Convergence in the formation of IE subgroups

> I hope Piotr will correct me if my premise is wrong, but
> wasn't "hound" attested much earlier, and much more frequently in

Old

> English? If so, the two situations are not comparable.
>

But if there had been no records of Old English, and that's not an
unthinkable situation, Trask's method would have forced us to
disregard 'hound'.


Torsten