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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "jouppe" <jouppe@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
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> > > On 2008-04-15 22:53, stlatos wrote:
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> > > > What about comparison with Germanic? What do you believe gave
> hund
> > > > and mund?
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> > I do not believe these come form participles. Even if they did,
> > what are the chances that such would only be retained in one branch
> > and in two words of nearly the same phon. form?
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> How do you then derive Gmc. *sal-t- from IE *sh2el-?

I've seen no ev. the same rules apply to liquids. It's more likely
that there's contamination with the adj. 'salty' with d>t, as part of
similar changes in IE branches specifically for this word.