Re: Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

Why? You haven't told us. We need to know. It's true
that Omotic is the cluttered unknown corner of AA.
Someone needs to work on it. So go ahead.


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

>
> That seems to be the consensus at the moment as
> Piotr spelled out helpfully.
> Why fight it?
> Patrick
> ==============>
> > I'm not convinced at all that Omotic deserves to
> be part of PAA
> > in the first place.
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > ==========
> >
> PAA and PIE have that particular
> feature of having reinterpreted
> inherited *u as a kind of "non-vowel"
> amounting ot *w.
>
> I have not seen a clear case of that
> in Omotic
> so I'm sceptical.
>
> Of course Piotr's not "part of" the question.
>
> Arnaud
>
> ======================
>
>
>
>
>

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