Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, G&P <G.and.P@...> wrote:

> From: G&P <G.and.P@...>
> Subject: RE: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:22 AM
> >it's fascinating that H(2)ente "in front
> of" cannot be compared
> >to Egyptien H._nt_
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>
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> Links outside PIE are firstly so unproved, and secondly
> projected across
> such a huge period of time, that I would hesitate to use
> any as the basis
> for a restructuring of what can be shown within PIE.
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>
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> I agree that links, and correspondences, and common
> patterns are highly
> suggestive, but it remains a great disappointment to me
> that neither I-S's
> attempt, nor Bomhard's (in either of its two versions)
> actually works.
>
>
>
> So in my never-humble opinion, what we can prove about PIE
> must be proved
> from PIE.
>
>
>
> Peter

How reliable are reconstructions of non-IE families?
I realize there are 3 or so reconstructions of Afro-Asiatic, all by respected scholars. But how do they compare with IE reconstruction?
Also Uralic et al. Do we really have anything truly well elaborated to compare with yet?