Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules


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

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Patrick:

Sorry, I do not have that one either.

'Wooly' is associated with *pha:- 'ibex, sheep'.

Surprise!


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