Re[4]: [tied] RE: Vocalic Theory ('Laryngeal' Theory)

At 2:14:38 AM on Friday, June 13, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 12:34:24 AM on Thursday, June 12, 2008, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:

>>> I never seem to be able to communicate this very simple
>>> principle to some people:

>>> PIE roots are either CV or CVC(V). There are no
>>> exceptions.

>> Probably because it's obviously wrong. Try *krewh2-
>> 'blood', *dHgWHer- 'to flow', *dHg^Hu:- 'fish', and of
>> course *dHg^Hem- 'earth'.

> One must be able to distinguish between a simple root and
> an obvious compound.

> *krewH2- is a compound of *kAr, 'red' + *w + H(A), 'liquid'.

What's obvious to you seems to be invisible to
Indo-Europeanists. I'll stick with the accepted root. And
the others that violate your supposed structural constraint.

Brian