Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 3:34 PM
> On 2008-11-11 20:42, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > You're right I'd have to appeal to analogy.
> > So would you with your composite class VI.
>
> Yes. The difference is that I don't attempt to explain
> the original
> *a/*o:/*o:/*a set with recourse to unknown words in an
> unknown language.
> I say "unknown" because the historically known
> Venetic language did not
> have any of the properties you ascribe to your ubiquitous
> substrate. In
> particular, it was not an ablaut-free a-language -- that
> much is clear
> enough.
>
> Piotr

That's why I was on Torsten's case regarding the name. He'll definitely have to change it to say, Lingua Ignota Europea, LIE for short.