From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61648
Date: 2008-11-15
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> >
>>
>> Uralic is very well elaborated. There are open issues, of
>> course, but
>> that's no different from PIE or any other language
>> family. It's my
>> understanding that Uto-Aztecan and Algonquin are also
>> fairly well
>> developed.
>
> From what I've seen of Uto-Aztecan, it seems to be pretty well
> reconstructed but the family doesn't strike me as very old.
> But as for "Altaic", "Nostratic Paleo-Siberian", Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian,
> AA, Karvelian, and everything else proposed as a relation to IE. Is there
> anything truly reliable?
>
Fortescue's Etymological dictionary of Eskimo-Aleut is very good
In fact, It's the only thing I have come across that matches Pokorny.
And it has a very practical index of meanings.
A.