Re: [tied] Re: Musical instruments and music in Proto-Indo-European

On 2007-05-29 10:50, tgpedersen wrote:

> Estonian kana "hen" and kael "neck" and the 'mot populaire' vowel /a/
> of *kan- worry me. Both IE and Uralic are newcomers at the Baltic and
> replaced related cultures. How Baltic *gaud- (PIE what?) would fit in
> I don't know.

It wouldn't, and I didn't mean to imply it would. *goNslI is not related
to *kantlom. At the very best, it just involves the same instrumental
suffix.

*kan- doesn't worry me, as "plain velar" colouring of this kind is found
in numerous comon roots (*kap-, bHag-, etc.)

Piotr