Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On 2008-03-25 20:19, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> If "eye" and "see" are one thing,
> they have nothing in common with "face"

Did I say anything about 'face' as the meaning of *h3okW-? The
_compound_ *proti-h3kW-o- means 'face' as well as several other things
like 'front, a thing seen, outward aspect, looks, appearance', all
easily derivable from 'against the eyes' (in the line of sight), the
literal interpretation of the compound.

> but some vague anatomic "contiguity",
> The burden of proof is about as heavy
> for the "lumpers".

A very strange thing to say for someone in whose mother tongue the word
for 'face' is <visage>. I suppose Ger. Gesicht is also related to
<sehen> because of "some vague anatomic contiguity" which doesn't really
count ;)

> Dear Piotr,
> As you have no clear argument,
> you are now saying that it must be true
> because it's been rehearsed often enough
> to be held as true until now.
> Habits are not proofs.
> This is very weak.

So far, _you_ have presented no clear argument for separating *h3ekW-
from *h1ekW- and you are trying to shift the burden off your shoulders.

Piotr