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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> Early attestations of OE, ON, OSax, and OHG are far too
> similar to be the result of some three millennia of
> divergence; the suggestion can't be taken seriously.
>
> Brian
>
> ===================
> A.F
> 1.
> I have read that you can transpose word by word Sanscrit
> into Lituanian and get decent Lituanian :
> MAybe PIE has not even started splitting in fact !?

What does 'transpose' mean?

> 2.
> How many different conjugations and roots have been listed
> in Old English for the most basic verb : to be.

Three roots: *es-, *bhu:- and *wes-

> I heard a joke that there are as many verbs "to be" as you can find
> OE texts.

That's a joke all right.

> I don't think these languages are that much similar.
> I(ch) stand means present in English : past : I got up in German.
> There are major incoherences within Westic.


>
> 3.
> If you take the 100 word list as a base for a rough datation,
> FRench versus Italian : 79 %
> English versus German : 72 %
> French against English/German : 34 or 35 %.

Aha. So English split from German just before French split from Italian.


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