Re: In response to Witzel's work

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

> Indic Words having retroflex can be divided in two groups :

> 1. inherited PIE words have acquired this feature thru regular

processes.

> And by the way, these processes must be rather early,
> as Uralic Moksha has *krsni > kshni "gold".
> (ksni is a possible word too hence -sh- in kshni tells us something)

RUKI is all that is needed for this example - no need for retroflexion.

Richard.