Re: Limitations of the comparative method

Thank you !

What about a *melting pot* ?
used for melting or for smelting ?

Arnaud

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: Limitations of the comparative method


melt
smelt is used in an metallurgical sense --melting
metal

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

. . .
> Tsalam? t?ob
>
> The cognate of PIE *tah2-(w) is
> th_gh_b : to smelt (especially snow or ice)
> which is phonetically a beautiful equation with
> LAtin tab-êo
> t = th
> H2 = gh (velar voiced spirant)
> b = b
>
> Another interesting word is Uralic word for "spring"
> which somehow looks like *taw or *tu-nd-
> but there is no trace of (gh) which should surface
> as -j- yod.
> Hungarian tavasz
> Etc
> but it should be **täv out of *tajw-
> it does not work
> so "spring" is not "ice-thaw" in Uralic
>
> Arnaud.
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