From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56460
Date: 2008-04-02
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From: Patrick Ryan
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> Chinese xu4 "raw silk, thread" < *sneH1-
> Baxter *snjaH
>
> Chinese xiu4 "embroider" < *syewH1
> Baxter *sjuwH
>
> Chinese xiu4 "sleeve" < *sluH-(bh)
> Baxter *zluwH-
>
> PIE loanwords with H1 pharyngeal unvoiced
> causing QuSheng.
>
> H2 causes ShangSheng.
> As in kuH2on "dog" > quan3.
> Baxter *kuHen
> Cf. PAA kvHvn "dog"
>
> What about your essay ?
> I need a good laugh too.
>
> Arnaud
>
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Is this Baxter's theory or yours?
If if you claim it is Baxter's, why does not not notive the *H's differently
if they have different effects?
Nama is very interesting. It has preserved some of the original meanings of
my Proto-Language monosyllables almost unchanged.
Patrick
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I give what Baxter 1992 has reconstructed.
I suggest better reconstruction for Proto-Chinese
on the basis of what PIE is.
Arnaud
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