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

On 2008-04-15 11:24, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> I agree Germanic works, and it probably is the source of Celtic and Italic
> that work too.

A strange thing to say. You have three perfectly regular cognates in
three groups, so you invent a convoluted story to explain that rather
than accept the obvious conclusion?

> Nothing exists in Balto-slavic. Another LW is there.

*h1ek^wos _is_ attested in Baltic.

> Indo-iranian works only if one accepts this phonetic repair-patch that k^w
> exists,
> Something I just do not accept in that case.

This is beginning to look like madness. I suppose you won't approve of
other regular correspondences like Iranian zv and Skt. hv for *g^Hw,
because otherwise you would have to concede a point?

> 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.

This is probably the craziest conclusion I've seen in a month or so. But
we've been through it before. Will you please stop flogging the dead
*h1ek^wos?

Piotr