Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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> On 2008-04-21 12:38, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
>> Nothing in Italic, Celtic, Anatolian, Toharian, indo-iranian.
>>
>> When is a word of limited extension, according to you ?
>
> Attestation gaps are always to be expected, especially for a lexeme
> which isn't part of the basic vocabulary (and however you define "basic"
> meanings, 'hedgehog' is not one of them). There may have existed an
> alternative word for the hedgehog, *g(^)He:r, with a more limited range
> of attestation (Greek, Italic), but *h1eg^Hi- is pretty widespread,
> especially for an insectivore. As there are no hedgehogs east of the
> Ural mountains, I'm not surprised that the word doesn't occur in
> Tocharian.
>
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As regards hedgehogs,
Most ST languages have a word for porcupine and a different word for
hedgehog,
so they must know hedgehogs.

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I'm currently preparing maps for kartvelian looking words in IE and Uralic.

Arnaud