Re: [tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

Patrick Ryan schrieb:

>
> As for *wrugh-yo-, P0korny has no trouble deriving Thracian
> briza from *wrugh-ya:, thus necessitating no reason to
> "alternate". I would be highly surprised to find ANY
> qualified IEist who asserts an Ablaut-like alternation
> between /i/ and /u/.
>
> Patrick Ryan
> ***

just for a bit more clearness. Pokorny does not derive the Thracian
word from that root, merely he quiet guesses the word should belong
to the said root. Generally speaking, I observe a tendency of
overratting some knowledges. We do not know too much about the rule
of derivation of what is called "Thracian" from IE thus I am not
sure we are allowed to say IE *u > Thracian "i" when one has one
example of this kind (let by side the meaning and all above).

Alex