Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-04-22 15:55, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > For whatever interest in might have, I reconstruct 'porcupine' as
> > pre-PIE *the:- and 'hedgehog' as pre-PIE *kWe:-.
>
> Just curious: have you got a pre-PIE reconstruction for 'spiny
> anteater'?

Personally, I think it is important that if we find a PIE
reconstruction for 'woolly wallaby' because that would allow us an
insight into what the PIE'ers, when expressive, were trying to express.


Torsten