Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: Patrick Ryan

I resist equations like *r > *d/t or vice versa because it opens Pandora's
box to all kinds of less productive intellectual hapax legomena (not really
but you get the idea).
My ingrained defense reaction to idle speculation.
Patrick
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Your right
but I'm afraid of it
in Families where it is attested.

Example :

Semitic w_l_d "(male) child < *uld.
Originally a vowel *u (not *w)
As proved by
Finnish ürkkä "(male) child"

*uld
Change 1 : PU *l > yod
*ujd
Change 2 : PU *d > r
*ujr
Change 3 : Proto-Finnish uj > *ü
hence
ür-plus suffix kkä

Linear.

Arnaud
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