Re: "As"

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

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

,

> >
> > what did you want to prove from the start ?
> >
> > Where is this relevant as regards YueZhi being
> or being not
> Tokharians ?
>
> I was exploring the possible Chinese evolution of
> the initial sequence
> *gn, which would probably have merged with any *kn
> except for the
> effects on tone. It seems that entirely possible
> that Yuezhi could
> reflect an initial /kn/ or /ñ/, which does not rule
> out the Tocharian
> language. Of course, this does assume that the name
> was the Yuezhi's
> own name for themselves, as is claimed in one
> account.

****GK: Which account is that?****




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