Horse Sense (was: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 3:44:52 PM on Saturday, April 12, 2008, Richard
> Wordingham wrote:
> > I don't even recall a serious
> > discussion of the plausibility of *h1ek^wos, which is much
> > more plausible than *k^wo:n 'dog'.

> Arnaud made essentially the same observation back in
> September (with the same evidence that he's just mentioned
> in response to you) and was rather comprehensively refuted
> by Piotr in
> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/49948>.

And it was over so quickly that it didn't register as serious. I
though Arnaud knew how to access Pokorny - we certainly didn't ask him
to explain away *k^wek 'gape', *k^wen 'holy' and *k^wes 'sigh, puff'.

Richard.