Re: Finnish KASKI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

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> It should have been obvious (though evidently not to you) that what
> I was disputing is whether any Nostratic phoneme could produce
> PIE *t and HEgy <s> (also PAA *s).

And such correspondences is what we gave you. As for unconditional s
> t, that can arise from s > þ and þ > t, both of which are well
attested changes.

Richard.

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You cut off my question. Did you not want to answer it?

I will repeat it: is PUr certain to be the parent of Samoyed?

That was the only example of what I was asking that I saw.


Patrick

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