Re: *a/*a: ablaut

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> 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 :
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> Basque hartz "bear" Ursus
> Hittite hartaka "bear"
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> Hittite is a loanword from Basque ?

I thought I provided two options?


Torsten