Re: swallow vs. nightingale

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> Torsten :
> Those forms that came as loans would bypass that process.
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> Arnaud
> What about examples to substantiate this assertion ?

That was not a assertion about the world but an observation about a
theory: if some words for "water" in IE languages were loaned into PIE
or some of its daughter languages and not inherited, those words would
not have participated in any PPIE rule *n,W > h3 or the like, and we
would find them in IE languages with w-, -kW-, n-, m- or similar.


Torsten