Re: Anatolia as PIE's "embarkation spot" (WasRe: Re: Re[4]: [tied]

So when did he Würm slither out of Europe?
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal came up with an ingenious look
at Basque as possibly related to IE.
Basque has words like urki for "birch", abarka for
"bast (bark-like material on trees) sandals" and so on
Etruscan has enough IE like material to cause people
conniption fits
BUT others see Caucasian languages as coming into
Europe. Are they correct?
Was a "para-IE" expansion followed by the spread of
agriculture through Europe and then a Caucasian
expansion followed by a Kurgan expansion?
Can you sort all that out?

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

> It would work if one assumes IE expansion is
> synonymous with the spread of agriculture
>
> ===============
> No
>
> PIE spread as soon as it could
> that is to say
> After
> the last Würm Ice-age finished
>
> No need to wait for agriculture
> to expand
> or
> wait for horses...
>
> Arnaud
>
> =====================
> If so, wouldn't one expect something similar to the
> W?
> Perhaps there were early offshoots of IE there which
> were absorbed or which we see as IE-like vocabulary
> in
> Basque and Etruscan
> But I'm just speculating
>
> ============
>
> Cf. Basque sorro "cultivated field"
> Much like *H2arH3
> and Semitic zara&
>
> Arnaud
>
> ===============
>
>
>
>

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