Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:57 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Not "catching the wind " ,
or, what ARE we discussing?


> On 2008-04-15 16:13, fournet.arnaud wrote:
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>> Comparative evidence from PAA, eskimo-aleut, PU, ST shows *kuH1on? is not
>> guess-work.
>> But you are sealed off into your tower of orthodoxy.
>
> No, they don't show "*kuH1on". It's your private reconstruction done
> according to idiosyncratic rules, on the basis of fanciful comparisons.
> In other words, _you_ are sealed off in one man's Cloud-cuckoo-land,
> playing with your own figments. Even if all those families had a common
> ancestor younger than dog domestication, the comparison would not yield
> a PIE reconstruction.
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You should look at data.
PAA (Starostin) kwVhen
PU Permiak küöne "she-wolf" < kuHon-
PU Finnish koira "dog" < *kuHd-
PEAleut qeR "bite ; qeReRlaq "wolf"
Chinese quan3 < kuH1on?

This word is probably a derivative of the verb "to bite".

Arnaud
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>
>Not only *kW and *k^w,
> but also *kW and *kw yield different reflexes in the Satem languages.
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Like what ?
(I mean other words than ekwos and kuon)
Arnaud
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