From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57185
Date: 2008-04-12
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From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
> We have already discussed the fact that hekwos (I don't even bother
to put
> an asterisk on that thing) is not a possible word.
That is clearly untrue. I don't even recall a serious discussion of
the plausibility of *h1ek^wos, which is much more plausible than
*k^wo:n 'dog'.
Richard.
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Yes "dog" is kuH2on.
As regard the reconstructoid hekwos :
Greek is hippos, ippos
Anatolian is Indo-iranian asuwa
Indic is as^was when we expect akas
Now I know you will come up with your theory that kw is not k+w,
which I consider as learned flapdoodle.
This reconstructoid just does not work.
There is no Horse word in that protolanguage.
Horses were domesticated after PIE split.
Arnaud
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