Re: Limitations of the comparative method

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> The better reconstruction for Latin aurum, 'gold', is *Ha(:)w(e)s-,
> 'illuminate', the color associated with _golden_ dawn as Pokorny so
> correctly has it.

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Tsalam? t?ob

This reconstruction does not conflict with *zahav

Arnaud
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> To abstract "H2_H2_w" from zahab (what is with the Hebrew? Arabic has kept
> it all together much more smartly) is unbelievably bizarre and
> incontrovertibly unjustifed.

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I am afraid you have not looked at data carefully enough
What about :
Georgian zibziba "wheat"
Latin av-esna "oats"
Hittite seppi [sebi] "wheat"
LAtin (substrate) sab-aia "bier"

Hittite keeps trace of -z- as -s-
and of -dz- as -zz-.
Look at Hittite once again
now that you have the key.

Arnaud
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> Pray tell where a table of correspondences enabling anything like what was
> reconstructed is published. I will buy one because it certainly will be
> rare.
>
> Patrick
>
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Just be patient.

Arnaud
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