From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 59242
Date: 2008-06-13
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 3:28 AM
Subject: 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
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Patrick:
for &dhg^ghu:, etc.
http://geocities.com/proto-language/ProtoLanguage-Monosyllables.htm#1K?XE
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