Re: [tied] Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in coun
From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 48493 Date: 2007-05-09
On 2007-05-09 08:44, tgpedersen wrote:
> *kWekWlo- is probably a loan since Semitic has a reduplicated form of
> a similar root. That leaves the beaver alone.
*kWelh1- is no doubt a PIE root, no matter whether there is something
similar elsewhere or not. There are also other such formations, e.g.
Hitt. memal 'groats' from *melh2-, so the beaver has some company anyway.