On 2008-02-11 07:55, Rick McCallister wrote:
> I'm just trying think how you could get from
> *bHr.h1g^o-
> to *wrugos, briza and vrihi
I was only interested in explaining <briza> -- conjecturally, since
given our limited knowledge of Thracian one could propose quite a few
speculative hypotheses, none of them verifiable (*bHr.zdH-ah2 has been
proposed as well). I don't think the Balto-Slavic/Germanic 'rye' word
should be reconstructed with initial *wr- -- the Germanic evidence
clearly points to *rugHi- ~ *rugHjo- (no *w anywhere), and the 'rice'
word in Indo-Iranian is most likely a Dravidian loan, as generally
assumed. In other words, I'm against lumping all these terms together by
Procrustean means.
Piotr