[Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Anser (was: swallow vs. nighingal

> > A.F :
> >
> > > I have written that Chinese was oxytonic (stressed on last
> > > vowel) and that this caused a major syllabic "crunch" in this
> > > language.
> > >
> > > Now, if you look at pages 607/608 of the above reference,
> > > pleng : flat surface => Cf. PIE pel(H2)
> > > pling : full => Cf. PIE pel(H1/w)
> > > pral : forehead => cf. PIE per(H2)
> > > prut : boil => Cf. PIE bherew-
> > > pwa(:)r : fire => Cf. PIE puH2ar
> > >
> > > It is quite clear that these words are cognates not loanwords.
> > > They had more than one syllable in ST before the "crunch".
>
> > Why is that quite clear?
>
>
> Which IE language could these words be from ?
> if you suppose that they have been massively borrowed from IE into
> ST ?

I don't. I think they are borrowed either into both Old Chinese and
PIE from some unrelated language geographically in between them, or
into PIE from some early predecessor of Chinese.


Torsten