Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

At 12:58:50 PM on Saturday, September 27, 2008, Andrew
Jarrette wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <

[...]

>> The only thing that really proves something is that
>> Semitic *tel is reflected by PIE treyes "three". there is
>> not a single word in Indo-European that is **tl- "three".
>> This is a cognate, not a word that can be created about
>> any time in the history of each Indo-European language.

> Makes sense to me; are any other Cybalist members
> convinced?

That IE and PSem. words for '3' are cognates? No. By the
way,
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Semitic_*%C5%9Bal%C4%81%CE%B8->
gives the PSem. as *s'ala:þ- (*s'laþ-), with a list of
reflexes; this is significantly different from Arnaud's
*tel. I've looked very little at Semitic and AA, but
according to Sáenz-Badillos, *s' is thought to have been
belted-l (voiceless lateral fricative).

Brian