Re[4]: [tied] Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we disc

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 57358
Date: 2008-04-15

At 8:38:41 AM on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

> From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>

[...]

>> It was *kuH1on?

>> Hence zero grade kH1wn > k^wn.
>> It's a fourth example of kH1w > k^w.

[...]

> There is no 'laryngeal' in this word.

> It is analyzed as *k^e-, 'gray' + -w-, 'wolf/predator' +
> -n- 'thing'.

No, it isn't. *You* so analyze it. Since your etymologies
are ... ideosyncratic, the distinction is important.

Brian