Re: *y-n,W- "subordinate"?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-11-20 17:09, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Time for your English lesson.
> > Let's ask Piotr what he meant by 'may point to ancient borrowing'.
>
> Just that. In either direction. Judging from its high derivational
> productivity in PIE, *h2óju was an important cultural term.

Or else (which haven't been proposed before, AFAIK) judging from its
widespread occurrence in both Semitic and IE, we're looking at several
cases of loans between the two families, not merely a single Ur-loan
and isolated derivation in both.


Torsten