Re: *a/*a: ablaut

Can you give us some examples?

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

>
>
> I think the best we can do is this:
> If a PIE root in -a- has 'PIE cognates' with the
> ablaut vowel, it
> should tentatively be considered a loan from an 'old
> IE' substrate
> into a newer one.
> If it has cognates in languagers outside of PIE, it
> should tentatively
> be considered a loan either from those languages to
> PIE, or a loan
> from some unknown language into both language
> groups.
>
> Torsten
>
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>
> What is your proposal for :
>
> Basque hartz "bear" Ursus
> Hittite hartaka "bear"
>
> Hittite is a loanword from Basque ?
>
> Arnaud
>
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