Re: Limitations of the compartive method

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:

>
> I guess, if the numbers are correct, that this is due to a high

number > of "dialect words", i.e. "North European" words which appear for

> instance only in Germ. and some of the other families like Celt.,
> Ital. or BSl. but not elsewhere. There are many roots like that in
> Pokorny.

In other words, many of the roots in Pokorny may not be IE at all, but
substratal (eg. the 'ale' word in Baltic, Fennic, Slavic and Germanic)


Torsten