[tied] Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in counting

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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.

That statement might mean three things:
1) *kWelh1- is a root in PIE, and is borrowed from elsewhere
2) *kWelh1- is a root in PIE, and is cognate with other Nostratic roots
3) *kWelh1- is a root in PIE, and unique to PIE

Which one did you intend?

> There are also other such formations, e.g.
> Hitt. memal 'groats' from *melh2-, so the beaver has some company
> anyway.

*melh2- is a verbal stem. So is *mes- and *men-, BTW.


Torsten