From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57327
Date: 2008-04-15
----- Original Message -----
From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Horse Sense (was: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus
Kossack?)
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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>> There is no word for horse that withstands a careful analysis.
>*H1ek^wo- perfectly withstands careful analysis, with the
>irregularity of the Greek form being the sole exception.
>It's bizarre in the extreme, and impossible to understand
>why you choose to ignore the obvious. Isn't it in fact a
>matter of you trying to twist and stretch P.I.E. to force
>it to fit an idiosyncratic Nostratic theory of yours?
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I agree Germanic works, and it probably is the source of Celtic and Italic
that work too.
Nothing exists in Balto-slavic. Another LW is there.
Indo-iranian works only if one accepts this phonetic repair-patch that k^w
exists,
Something I just do not accept in that case.
Because H1ek^wos cannot be **H1ekH1wos, or can it ?
Anatolian (in fact only Luwi) is an Iranian LW.
Greek does not work at all and looks tocharian.
Tocharian yuk, yäkw is supposed to be ok.
So at the bottom line, we have two languages that really work :
Tocharian and Germanic.
Tocharian > Greek
Germanic > Italic + Celtic
Germanic > Indo-iranian > Anatolian
There's nothing to twist.
Look at what the words are.
Arnaud
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>> Stop running in circles.
>You chose the route; I'm just chasing you.
>David
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DRW
I don't feel chased.
You look like a nuclear-powered over-excited pendulum,
not like a threat.
Arnaud
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