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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:
>
> LIV only lists verb roots. Pokorny (and Bird) also list nouns,
pronouns,
> deictic words, particles and onomatapoeic words.
Of course. Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> (On the other hand, LIV, or Pokorny, or Bird, or I, could be wrong.)
>
> Peter
>
I don't understand why you have said that, I'm not sure what you're
referring to. Anybody could be wrong about anything, of course. I
generally trust those ideas that are agreed upon by the most scholars
at the most recent time (don't most people), but on the issue of the
tectals I still find some lack of consensus, and I am unable to come
to my own conclusion, although deep down I lean more toward the idea
of only two series, velars and labiovelars. But as you point out,
there may have been different series at different times, and merges
or divergences may have occurred at different times and among
different groups of speakers.
Andrew