Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: *a/*a: ablaut

There was 70s slang "heart-on" --in Valentine's Day
cards

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

. . .

> Nonsense: they prove everything. If a form is
> attested in
> Anatolian, Greek, Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic,
> Armenian and
> indirectly Germanic (PGmc. *hert-on- cannot be from
> the
> oblique stem *k^r.d-, as Lat. cord-, so it must
> reflect
> full-grade *k^e:rd-, with Osthoff shortening), then
> it's
> assuredly PIE.

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